find that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital …

of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a … combination of novel data and a unique quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke …

death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995 - 2010. The estimates indicate that … increases in the number of hospital days. Real per capita pharmaceutical expenditure increased rapidly during this period, but … 62% of the increase in pharmaceutical expenditure was offset by a reduction in hospital expenditure attributable to …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect …

Many countries have reformed hospital reimbursement policies to provide stronger incentives for quality and cost …

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the …

(and therefore reduce 'skimping' on such patients). -- hospital competition ; soft budgets ; quality ; cost efficiency …

This paper studies the effect of hospital ownership on treatment rates allowing for spatial correlation among hospitals … hospital ownership on treatment rates that depends upon the market structure where the hospital is located and which varies by …