Quality competition and hospital mergers—An experiment

Abstract

Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte.

Who benefits from quality competition in health care? A theory and a laboratory experiment on the relevance of patient characteristics

“…Han et al. (2017) investigate the quality provision behavior of competing hospitals before and after hospital mergers.…”

“…For example, for credence goods markets, Angerer et al (2021b) and Angerer, Glätzle-Rützler, et al (2021) look at the impact of monitoring and feedback platforms on market efficiency, and Greiner et al (2017) focuses on the effects of separation of diagnosis and treatment. Han et al (2017) investigate the quality provision behavior of competing hospitals before and after hospital mergers.…”

Do Hospital Mergers Reduce Waiting Times? Theory and Evidence from the English NHS

“…Since the price is …xed and not dependent on waiting times, each hospital has one instrument (waiting time) to control one variable (marginal cost) and there are therefore no competition externalities between the hospitals. 15 This changes when hospitals have semi-altruistic preferences. For any < 1, the second term in ( 13) is negative (since @B i =@w i < 0).…”

Choice of cooperation strategy under demand updating and altruistic behavior

“…The second kind of cooperation is merger and acquisition cooperation under altruistic behavior. Research shows that altruistic behavior impacts service quality in service-oriented enterprises [ 12 , 13 ]. In practice, after the merger and acquisition of service providers by many logistics integrators in the logistics service industry, the logistics integrators will take part in the shares of the logistics providers and eventually distribute the total profits.…”