terms of increased access to hospital care for newly eligible children, so that there is an overall 10% rise in child …

, we find that both kinds of competition lower interest rates, at least in the hospital sector …

available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart …

yields far more accurate estimates of hospital quality than previously available. We find that, on average, for …

We study the consequences of hospital competition for Medicare beneficiaries' heart attack care from 1985 to 1994. We … examine how relatively exogenous determinants of hospital choice such as travel distances influence the competitiveness of … hospital markets, and how hospital competition interacts with the influence of managed care organizations to affect the key …

applied to health care: hospital mergers, monopsony, and foreclosure. In each of these sections we review the relevant …

transport patients and have strong preferences for certain hospitals. Being admitted to a hospital with two standard deviations … hospital in a concentrated market increases spending but has no detectable effect on mortality …