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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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brekke, Kurt R. (author)
Outros Autores: Siciliani, Luigi (author), Straume, Odd Rune (author)
Formato: workingPaper
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2014
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/29196
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/29196