inpatient or outpatient hospital use, and consequently little impact on overall public hospital costs. These results suggest …

We analyse - theoretically and empirically - the effect of hospital mergers on waiting times in healthcare markets … long panel of data on hospital mergers in the English NHS, where we find that the effects of a merger on waiting times … crucially rely on a legal status that can reasonably be linked to the degree of profit-orientation. Whereas hospital mergers …

exploit within-hospital quasi-random assignment of patients to senior doctors following a heart attack to estimate the … hospitals over a 13 year period, enabling the separate identification of doctor effects from hospital effects or observable patient … reassigning doctors within-hospital to patients on the basis of their comparative ability to treat each patient type. These …