Cirulli, Vanessa; Marini, Giorgia; Marini, Marco A.; … - 2023
We analyse - theoretically and empirically - the effect of hospital mergers on waiting times in healthcare markets … waiting times, we show that the effect is theoretically ambiguous. In the presence of cost synergies, the scope for lower … waiting times as a result of the merger is larger if the hospitals are more profit-oriented. This result is arguably confirmed …