We examine the evolving structure of the U.S. hospital industry since 1970, focusing on how ownership form influences … hospital chain significantly decreases the probability of exit for for-profits, but not not-for-profits …

results in the hospital ownership literature can be explained largely by differences in authors' underlying theoretical … combined estimates across studies suggest little difference in cost among all three types of hospital ownership, and that for …

characteristics. The findings are best explained by differences in the objectives adopted by hospital types rather than differences in … capital constraints faced by them. Preliminary evidence suggests that hospital behavior depends on the ownership form of …

This paper offers an empirical test of ownership mix efficiency in the U.S. hospital services industry. The test …

To develop new evidence on the effects of hospital ownership and other aspects of hospital market composition on health ….4 percent lower levels of hospital expenditures, but virtually the same patient health outcomes. We conclude that for …

hospital ownership in the urban context. We examine differences in the provision of profitable and unprofitable medical … services in rural areas across nonprofit, for-profit, and government hospitals. We also consider the effect of hospital … ownership mix within rural hospital markets. We find that rural nonprofit hospitals are more likely than for-profit hospitals to …

, we find that both kinds of competition lower interest rates, at least in the hospital sector …We explore the effects of two kinds of competition on the cost of capital in the tax-exempt bond market: (1 …) competition amongst underwriters and (2) competition amongst issuers (most of which are quasi-public special authorities …

We study the consequences of hospital competition for Medicare beneficiaries' heart attack care from 1985 to 1994. We … hospital markets, and how hospital competition interacts with the influence of managed care organizations to affect the key … the sample period partially explains the dramatic change in the impact of hospital competition …

In this paper we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The paper begins with a … ways that might affect the optimality of competition. The paper then focuses on the main areas in which antitrust has been … applied to health care: hospital mergers, monopsony, and foreclosure. In each of these sections we review the relevant …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … survival rates from emergency heart attack admissions (AMI). More importantly, we find that higher competition (as indicated by …