Optimal prices and costs for hospitals with excess bed capacity

Applied Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1201-1212

  Ennis, Sean ^a   Schoenbaum, Michael ^b   Keeler, Theodore ^c  

^a United States Department of Justice   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOSPITAL SECTOR; PRICE DYNAMICS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033911565     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368400404344     Document Type: Article

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