Hospital competition with soft budgets

We study the incentives for quality provision and cost efficiency for hospitals with soft budgets, where the payer can cover deficits or confiscate surpluses. While a higher bailout probability reduces cost efficiency, the effect on quality is ambiguous. Profit confiscation reduces both quality and...

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Autor principal: Brekke, Kurt R. (author)
Outros Autores: Siciliani, Luigi (author), Straume, Odd Rune (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2015
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/36624
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/36624