Hospital competition with soft budgets

We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i.e., the payer may cover deficits or confiscate surpluses. The basic set up is a Hotelling model with two hospitals that differ in location and face demand uncertainty, where the ho...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brekke, Kurt R. (author)
Outros Autores: Siciliani, Luigi (author), Straume, Odd Rune (author)
Formato: workingPaper
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2012
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/18522
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/18522