Hospital's response to competition

Anti-competitive behaviour by hospitals

Theory

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Gaynor M, Haas-Wilson, D & Vogt, W 2000 Are Invisible Hands Good Hands? Moral Hazard, Competition, and the 2nd Best in Health Care Markets’ Journal of Political Economy 108(5): 992-1005

Empirical

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Dranove D & Ludwick R 1999 Competition and Pricing by Non-profit Hospitals: A Reassessment of Lynk’s Analysis’ Journal of Health Economics 18(1): 87-98 Pooled cross- section time-series
Town R & Vistnes G 2001 Hospital Competition in HMO Networks Journal of Health Economics 20(4): 733-53 Panel

Literature Surveys

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Gaynor M & Haas-Wilson D 1999 Change, Consolidation and Competition in Health Care Markets Journal of Economic Perspectives 13: 141-164
Gaynor M & Vogt W 2000 Antitrust and competition in health care markets in Culyer AJ and Newhouse JP (eds), Handbook of Health Economics
Sloan F 2000 Not-For-Profit Ownership and Hospital Behaviour in Culyer AJ and Newhouse JP (eds), Handbook of Health Economics
U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice 2004 Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition Available online here