Bloom, Nicholas; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
government. Because closing hospitals in areas where the governing party is expecting a tight election race ("marginals") is rare … due to the fear of electoral defeat, we can use political marginality as an instrumental variable for the number of … hospitals in a geographical area. We find that higher competition is positively correlated with management quality, measured …