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 …

hospital ownership in the urban context. We examine differences in the provision of profitable and unprofitable medical … services in rural areas across nonprofit, for-profit, and government hospitals. We also consider the effect of hospital … ownership mix within rural hospital markets. We find that rural nonprofit hospitals are more likely than for-profit hospitals to …

hospital markets. Secondary objectives include estimating hospital demand systems useful for market definition and merger … simulation. To this end, we estimate a structural model of demand and pricing in the short term hospital industry in California … for-profits. We simulate the effects of the 1997 merger of two hospital chains. In unconcentrated markets such as Los …

This paper provides experimental evidence on the effect of increased competition on prices and quality in the retail … areas where the number of entrants was larger. Competition seems to have driven part of the clientele away from incumbent …

increase costs. We illustrate our argument with examples taken from the insurance and the hospital industries, and discuss …

infarction (reported by the state of California). Measures of competition are constructed for each hospital and payer type. The … of competition for HMO patients decrease risk-adjusted hospital mortality rates. Conversely, increases in competition for …. Increasing competition has little net effect on hospital quality for our sample …

High and increasing hospital prices have led to calls for price regulation. If prices are high because of consolidation …'s predictions across numerous quality measures including patient satisfaction, hospital processes, risk adjusted mortality, the …