This paper investigates the economic implications of the hospital's internal organizations structure. It concludes: (1) The hospital is actually two separate firms -- a medical staff (or demand division) and an administration (or supply division). Each half of the organization has its own...

This paper is concerned with jobs for which nontrivial job-specific skills and task-specific knowledge evolve, in a learning by doing fashion, during the course of a worker's employment. Otherwise qualified but inexperienced workers cannot be regarded as the equivalent of job incumbents under...

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The widespread cross subsidization observed in hospital rate structures has become the focus of increasing controversy. This paper shows how this pricing practice can play a critical role in compensating for distortions and inequalities in existing health insurance coverage. The hospital pricing...