characteristics. The findings are best explained by differences in the objectives adopted by hospital types rather than differences in … capital constraints faced by them. Preliminary evidence suggests that hospital behavior depends on the ownership form of …

outpatient and inpatient care. Our results indicate that greater outpatient spending was associated with more hospital admissions … increase in hospital admissions associated with greater outpatient spending was for conditions in which it is plausible to …

the hospital industry, where the courts have denied seven of eight merger challenges since 1994, due largely to … previously employed methods overstate hospital demand elasticities by a factor of 2.4 to 3.4 and define larger markets than would … environment for hospital mergers …

The growth of unionization among hospital workers was sharply accelerated by the 1974 amendments to the NLRA covering … voluntary hospital workers. With continuing inflationary pressures in the hospital sector, the cost implications of the recent … and projected growth of hospital unions is of some concern to policy-makers . This paper presents estimates of union cost …

case of hospital mergers across distinct geographic markets ("cross-market" mergers), we show that such combinations can …. We test our theoretical predictions using two samples of cross-market hospital mergers, focusing exclusively on hospitals …. The results suggest that cross-market, within-state hospital mergers increase hospital systems' leverage when bargaining …

to obtain Sleep discounts off list prices from providers. I study hospital responses to the advent of price competition … in California over the 1984-1988 period. I note that, due to the nature of hospital bargaining with PPOs, hospitals … should face more competitive pressure in hospital markets that arc more competitive ex-ante. This hypothesis is supported by …

comparable clinical quality across hospital types. How specialty hospitals can maintain such a price premium remains an open …