Cirulli, Vanessa; Marini, Giorgia; Marini, Marco; … - 2023
long panel of data on hospital mergers in the English NHS, where we find that the effects of a merger on waiting times …We analyse - theoretically and empirically - the effect of hospital mergers on waiting times in healthcare markets … waiting times as a result of the merger is larger if the hospitals are more profit-oriented. This result is arguably confirmed …