We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … are all under a DRG-based payment system after the reform. For each hospital status, we assess the benefits of local … hospital level to take into account hospital unobserved heterogeneity and censorship in the duration of stays in a flexible way …

This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital … for a number of measures of hospital output. NFP hospitals serve as a benchmark, being very similar to Public hospitals …, but without political influence on their hiring. Public-hospital employment is positively correlated with the local …

across Canadian provinces in a differencein-differences approach. Time-series analysis for each province and for France … mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy (around 6 mln) and …

Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital …-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a …

role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held …

within 15 days between extreme regions. They may reflect spatial differences in patient characteristics, treatments, hospital …