Browsing Norges Handelshøyskole by Subject "L44"
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Hospital mergers : a spatial competition approach
(Discussion paper;8/2013, Working paper, 2013-04)Using a spatial competition framework with three ex ante identical hospitals, we study the effects of a hospital merger on quality, price and welfare. The merging hospitals always reduce quality, but the non-merging hospital ... -
Hospital mergers with regulated prices
(Discussion paper;21/2014, Working paper, 2014-05)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 ...