Is hospital competition wasteful?

RAND Journal of Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 247-262

  Dranove, David ^a   Shanley, Mark ^a   Simon, Carol ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; TECHNOLOGY, HIGH-COST;

EID: 0026875087     PISSN: 07416261     EISSN: 17562171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2555987     Document Type: Article

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