this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting …

parameters of a value-added hospital production function correcting for endogenous input choices in order to assess the private … change in hospital multi-factor productivity. Not-for-profits invested more heavily and differently in IT than for …

population already has geographic access to the service at a nearby hospital. The first effect is stronger, leading to the net …

patients who have greater scope for hospital choice, suggesting a role for patient demand in allocation in the hospital sector …

decompose the joint contribution of quality and unobserved productivity to hospital costs, relying on heterogeneous tastes among … the 75th percentile would increase costs at the average hospital by nearly fifty percent. Improvements in traditional … metrics of hospital quality such as risk-adjusted mortality are more modest, indicating that other factors such as amenities …