Mergers and marginal costs: New evidence on hospital buyer power.
We estimate the effects of hospital mergers, using detailed data containing medical supply transactions (representing 23% of operating costs) from a sample of US hospitals, 2009–2015. Pre‐merger price variation across hospitals (Gini coefficient 7%) suggests significant opportunities for cost decrea...
| Publicado en: | RAND Journal of Economics (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 151 - 179 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2021
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