HIE, we find large "offset" effects in terms of increased hospital utilization in response to the combination of higher … HIE, we find large "offset" effects in terms of increased hospital utilization in response to the combination of higher …

This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital … for a number of measures of hospital output. NFP hospitals serve as a benchmark, being very similar to Public hospitals …, but without political influence on their hiring. Public-hospital employment is positively correlated with the local …