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Does a hospital's quality depend on the quality of other hospitals? A spatial econometrics approach

We examine whether a hospital's quality is affected by the quality provided by other hospitals in the same market. We first sketch a theoretical model with regulated prices and derive conditions on demand and cost functions which determine whether a hospital will increase its quality if its riv...

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Autores principales: Gravelle, Hugh, Santos, Rita, Siciliani, Luigi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: North-Holland 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4375725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25843994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2014.09.005