Bilodeau, Daniel; Crémieux, Pierre-Yves; Ouellette, Pierre - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 82 (2000) 3, pp. 489-498
This paper examines whether a competitive model of the firm appropriately describes the behavior of hospitals in a non-market environment. This test is based on the best database yet available in the hospital sector. We show that properties of the non-market hospitals'cost functions are...