not only at country level but also at regional and hospital level across countries. The possibility of linking hospital …

first question examines the existence of agglomeration economies in the hospital service industry. The second considers … whether the sharing of intermediate inputs contributes to spillovers from spatial concentration of hospital services. These … whether a service is provided and how the service is provided. Three key findings are obtained. First, hospitals in more …

decade and have been criticised for distorting existing clinical priorities in scheduling hospital treatment. We demonstrate …

Recent substantive reforms to the English National Health Service expanded patient choice and encouraged hospitals to … compete within a market with fixed prices. This study investigates whether these reforms led to improvements in hospital … quality. We use a difference-in-difference-style estimator to test whether hospital quality (measured using mortality from …