characteristics. The findings are best explained by differences in the objectives adopted by hospital types rather than differences in … capital constraints faced by them. Preliminary evidence suggests that hospital behavior depends on the ownership form of …

patient perspective, hospital quality therefore embodies amenities as well as clinical quality. We also find that a one …Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand …-standard-deviation increase in amenities raises a hospital's demand by 38.4% on average, whereas demand is substantially less responsive to …

this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting … examine the impact of mergers on a large set of outcomes including financial performance, productivity, waiting times and … clinical quality and find little evidence that mergers achieved gains other than a reduction in activity. In addition, mergers …

decompose the joint contribution of quality and unobserved productivity to hospital costs, relying on heterogeneous tastes among … productivity differences. After accounting for these differences, we find that a quality improvement from the 25th percentile to … metrics of hospital quality such as risk-adjusted mortality are more modest, indicating that other factors such as amenities …

the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and its impact on clinical outcomes, productivity and labor. We find … HICT on productivity is needed to guide further adoption. There is little econometric work directly investigating the … productivity stressing the importance of complementary factors (e.g. management and skills) in determining HICT impacts …