review the large empirical literature on the strategic determination of hospital prices through the lens of this model …

private hospital capacity is vertically integrated, integration increases inpatient care spending by 6 percent and decreases … to high-quality non-integrated hospitals, resulting in plan networks that limit hospital competition. Whereas vertical … integration reduces double marginalization, skewed cost-sharing structures--and their effect on hospital competition--more than …

In this paper we investigate the existence of a two-tier medical system in the German acute care hospital sector using … data from a survey of 483 German hospitals. The focus of our analysis lies on the impact of hospital concentration on the … hospitals by privileging profitable patients than hospitals in highly concentrated markets. -- Hospital markets ; Patients …

Important differences in labor market characteristics suggest that men and women physicians may be viewed as imperfect … practices, may have (unintentionally) favored female physicians. Using data from the Young Physicians Survey, the author … compares changes in the gender earnings gap for physicians in states with high versus low managed care growth during the 1980s …