high quality microdata from the US hospital industry, an industry of keen policy and scientific interest. …

In the late 1980s, the Prospective Payment System and the expansion of managed care plans forced hospitals to be cost … scale economies among merged and control hospitals prior to the merger, and one year and two years after the merger, using …

Prior research on the nonprice theory of hospital competition uses data prior to the mid-1980s when third party payers … three distinct samples of nonprice theory of hospital competition only for nonprofit institutions. Conversely, costs for … public and for-profit hospitals are found to be unaffected by market structure. …

-for-performance (P4P) programs have been implemented in the inpatient sector to improve the quality of care provided by hospitals …

-for-performance (P4P) programs have been implemented in the inpatient sector to improve the quality of care provided by hospitals …

We examine how public sector third-party purchasers and hospitals negotiate quality targets when a fixed proportion of … hospital revenue is required to be linked to quality. We develop a bargaining model linking the number of quality targets to …/11, we find that the number of quality targets is determined by the purchaser's population health and its budget, the …

Most studies of competition in health care focus on prices and costs, but concerns about quality play a central role in … policy debates. If demand is inelastic to quality, then competition may reduce patient welfare. This study uses a dataset of … quality when choosing hospitals. Results indicate that at the hospital level, a one-standard deviation increase in the graft …

about Spanish hospitals, we have found that private hospitals provide services at a lower cost at expenses of lower quality …This article analyzes hospital privatization by comparing costs and quality between different ownership forms. We put … the attention on the distinction between public hospitals and private hospitals with public funding. Using information …

hospital choices, which may result in a lower degree of competition among hospitals and lower quality. … quality delivered by hospitals, using Italian data. We explore the impact on individual choices of a set of variables such as … individuals and the quality delivered by hospitals. The absence of a source of information on the quality of hospitals accessible …