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 …

on quality. We examine the U.S. hotel industry during the past half century. We document that starting in the early 1980s …, quality competition came more in the form of costs that vary with hotel size, and less in the form of costs that are fixed … have been associated with more, but smaller, hotels in business travel destinations. In contrast, the growth in the number …