Hospital mergers with regulated prices
We study the effects of a hospital merger using a spatial competition framework with semialtruistic hospitals that invest in quality and expend cost-containment effort facing regulated prices. We find that the merging hospitals always reduce quality, whereas non-merging hospitals respond by increasi...
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| Format: | workingPaper |
| Language: | eng |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1822/29196 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/29196 |