GOBILLON, Laurent; BLANC, David LE - In: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique (2004) 74, pp. 15-45
The purpose of this paper is to study hospital costs in the event of introduction of a Prospective Payment System in France. We use a nested three dimensional database (stays-hospitals-years) to identify hospital unobservable heterogeneity and a transitory moral hazard component of cost...