example, U.S. antitrust agencies lost several hospital merger challenges when evidence showed that a nontrivial fraction of … estimate a random coefficients logit model of hospital demand and use the estimates to predict the increase in price that … even in suburban areas with high outflows of consumers, some hospital mergers could lead to significant price increases …

This article examines the antitrust issues in rural hospital mergers by focusing on an important antitrust case … involving the merger of two small hospitals in Ukiah, California. A key issue in this matter was whether the geographic market … served by the merger included a nearby larger city. The economic efficiency of small rural hospitals and the competitive …

efficiency - that have been absent from, if not violated by, the rulings in these merger cases …

merger for which quality data are available, a reduction in quality of care. In the long run, hospital mergers shielded with … regulation. We investigate the long-run effects of the four horizontal hospital mergers shielded with COPAs prior to 2015. We …

example, U.S. antitrust agencies lost several hospital merger challenges when evidence showed that a nontrivial fraction of … estimate a random coefficients logit model of hospital demand and use the estimates to predict the increase in price that … even in suburban areas with high outflows of consumers, some hospital mergers could lead to significant price increases …

We examine 558 hospital mergers during a period of increased antitrust enforcement. Using US data on commercially … likely to lead to efficiencies had higher price increases. Using administrative data on merger investigations, we estimate …