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 …

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 … is difficult to measure and potentially confounded with productivity. Rather than relying on clinical or process measures … productivity differences. After accounting for these differences, we find that a quality improvement from the 25th percentile to …

The conventional wisdom in health economics is that large differences in average productivity across hospitals are the …, however, we find that productivity dispersion in heart attack treatment across hospitals is, if anything, smaller than in … market shares at a point in time and are more likely to expand over time. For example, a 10 percent increase in hospital …

providing little or no incremental value. In this paper, we draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to better … differences in the propensity to adopt technology can lead to wide and persistent productivity differences across countries -- or … productivity, and swamp the impact of traditional factor inputs. Holding technology constant, the marginal gains from spending on …

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