in preventing 1.9 hospital admissions (-2.1%) due to cardiovascular diseases per day, per 1 million population. We also …

Applying principles of merger evaluation to the health care industry in general, and to hospital markets in particular … suggest a new empirical approach to assessing the impact of hospital competition which addresses the shortcomings of existing … how our methods can be used to assess the welfare implications of specific hospital mergers, and with some implications of …

We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients’ length of stay and risk … of readmission. To do so, we exploit a major reform implemented in Quebec (Canada) in 1999. The Quebec Government … introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed …

We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients’ length of stay and risk … of readmission. To do so, we exploit a major reform implemented in Quebec (Canada) in 1999. The Quebec Government … introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed …

We study the employees' demand for hospital parking. We estimate the effect of the employees' parking price on demand …

help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …

responsiveness to changes in demand for hospital services in Germany between 1996 and 2006. With respect to the speed of adaptation … owned hospitals. Thus, the study finds evidence that to some extent the privatization of the hospital sector may be an …

Applying principles of merger evaluation to the health care industry in general, and to hospital markets in particular … suggest a new empirical approach to assessing the impact of hospital competition which addresses the shortcomings of existing … how our methods can be used to assess the welfare implications of specific hospital mergers, and with some implications of …