merger of St. Therese Medical Center (STMC) and Victory Memorial Hospital (VMH). Using standard difference …We provide an in-depth analysis of the price effects of two hospital mergers that occurred in the north shore suburbs … of Chicago in early 2000: Evanston Northwestern Healthcare's (ENH) purchase of Highland Park Hospital (HPH) and the …

We conduct a retrospective study of the Sutter-Summit hospital merger to assess whether antitrust enforcement in this … increase was among the largest of any comparable hospital in California, indicating this transaction may have been … matter was appropriate. This consummated merger combined two hospitals located close together in the Oakland-Berkeley region …

We examine 558 hospital mergers during a period of increased antitrust enforcement. Using US data on commercially … likely to lead to efficiencies had higher price increases. Using administrative data on merger investigations, we estimate …