innovative contributions of intermediate and end users that have been sold and evaluated within the healthcare sector. Several … studies in the healthcare sector have shown that healthcare professionals are an important source of innovation. Yet, to date … ultimately of other patients' therapy. We analyze innovations of producers, healthcare professionals, patients, and relatives in …

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 …