In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … hospital increases the index of management quality by one third of a standard deviation and leads to a 10.7% reduction in heart …

, hospital services, and physician services. We will discuss the potential implications of the restructuring of the health care …

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

terms of increased access to hospital care for newly eligible children, so that there is an overall 10% rise in child …

, we find that both kinds of competition lower interest rates, at least in the hospital sector …

available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart …

yields far more accurate estimates of hospital quality than previously available. We find that, on average, for …

We study the consequences of hospital competition for Medicare beneficiaries' heart attack care from 1985 to 1994. We … examine how relatively exogenous determinants of hospital choice such as travel distances influence the competitiveness of … hospital markets, and how hospital competition interacts with the influence of managed care organizations to affect the key …