The for-profit hospital is in the minority numerically in all developed countries. Although the for-profits' market … contrast, for-profit chains have made few inroads in other countries. The literature on hospital ownership addresses three … fundamental questions. First, why do private not-for-profit organizations dominate the hospital industry? Second, how do private …

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty procedures over the years 2008-2011. We examine how patients' choice of the hospital … highly regulated healthcare markets. …

One of the reasons why regulators are hesitant about permitting price competition in healthcare markets is that it may …

how constrained the hospital is, explains differences in scale. Changes in benefits and costs structures of healthcare …Excessive waiting times for elective surgery have been a long-standing concern in many national healthcare systems in … the OECD. How do the hospital admission patterns that generate waiting lists affect different patients? What are the …

We develop a dynamic model of hospital competition where (i) waiting times increase if demand exceeds supply; (ii …) patients choose a hospital based in part on waiting times; and (iii) hospitals incur waiting time penalties. We show that … to higher waiting times. These results are robust to different game-theoretic solution concepts, designs of the hospital …