Showing 1 - 10 of 884
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250127
We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850156
(and therefore reduce 'skimping' on such patients). -- hospital competition ; soft budgets ; quality ; cost efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691701
We exploit variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of region-specific tariffs within a Prospective Pay System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health care services. We consider survey data for the years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444108
, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551043
find that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013453768
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013454014
The term structure of equity returns is downward-sloping: stocks with high cash flow duration earn 1.10% per month lower returns than short-duration stocks in the cross section. I create a measure of cash flow duration at the firm level using balance sheet data to show this novel fact. Factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521939
We show theoretically and empirically that executives are paid less for their own firm's performance and more for their rivals' performance if an industry's firms are more commonly owned by the same set of investors. Higher common ownership also leads to higher unconditional total pay. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561142
This paper proposes a theoretical model that incorporates corporate governance into the basic CAPM, where corporate governance affects the disutility of managerial effort and the possibility of managers to divert company resources. It shows that corporate governance affects firms’ stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212666