Bloom, Nicholas; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
hospitals in a geographical area. We find that higher competition is positively correlated with management quality, measured … using a new survey tool. Adding a rival hospital increases management quality by 0.4 standard deviations and increases … "hidden policies" that could be used in marginal districts to improve hospital management. We also run placebo tests of …