This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price …

Abstract: Using a newly constructed dataset on German hospitals, which includes 24 process and outcome indicators of … clinical quality have increased significantly in 2008 compared to 2006. In addition, the hospitals underperforming in 2006 … appear to have increased their clinical quality relatively more than the other hospitals. When instead quality is measured by …

In this study, we explore the causal relationship between length of stay (LOS) in hospitals and the treatment outcome …

. Using a quarterly panel of general, acute-care hospitals from Washington State, we find that hospital efficiency does vary …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment …

differences between regions. It highlights the following: (1) the reduction in the number of hospitals and hospital beds and the … high level of migration towards northern hospitals; (5) with reference to costs, increasing returns to scale up to a given …

This study investigates hospitals' dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price …

spillovers on all our measures of academic achievement. Our estimates suggest that siblings of focal children who were slightly …