The conventional wisdom in health economics is that idiosyncratic features of the healthcare sector leave little scope …

The conventional wisdom in health economics is that large differences in average productivity across hospitals are the …, however, we find that productivity dispersion in heart attack treatment across hospitals is, if anything, smaller than in … productivity today is associated with about 4 percent more patients in 5 years. Taken together, these facts suggest that the …

the importance of organizations for merger research in health care and the economy more generally …

This chapter overviews productivity research from an industrial organization perspective. We focus on what is known and … what still needs to be learned about the productivity levels and dynamics of individual producers, but also how these … interact through markets and industries to influence productivity aggregates. We overview productivity concepts, facts, data …

Economists have shown that large and persistent differences in productivity levels across businesses are ubiquitous … differ in their measured productivity levels. The causes are manifold, and differ depending on the particular setting. They …

shift in the composition of productivity growth away from vintage-specific to general growth. This shift has stimulated the …

integrated. These patterns are consistent, however, with an alternative efficiency-based mechanism. Namely, higher productivity … evidence that integrated producers' productivity advantage is tied to improved logistics coordination afforded by large local … local concrete operations have similarly high productivity levels …

) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the … productivity measures. If prices reflect idiosyncratic demand or market power shifts, high "productivity" businesses may not be … selection and productivity growth using data from industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately …

Many studies have documented large and persistent productivity differences across producers, even within narrowly … for these differences, by proposing that demand-side features also play a role in creating the observed productivity …. Substitutability increases truncate the productivity distribution from below, resulting in higher minimum and average productivity …

There are tremendous across-plant differences in measured productivity levels, even within narrowly defined industries …, an industry's demand structure may also influence the shape of its plant-level productivity distribution. This paper … productivity distribution is intuitively straightforward. When industry consumers can easily switch between suppliers, it is more …