Gravelle, Hugh; Santos, Rita; Siciliani, Luigi - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 49 (2014) C, pp. 203-216
, revision and redo rates, and three patient reported indicators, to examine the relationship between the quality of hospitals …We examine whether a hospital's quality is affected by the quality provided by other hospitals in the same market. We … whether a hospital will increase its quality if its rivals increase their quality. We then apply spatial econometric methods …