Cirulli, Vanessa; Marini, Giorgia; Marini, Marco; … - 2023
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 …