کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
983884 934095 2008 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Agglomeration and Cost Economies for Washington State Hospital Services
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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Agglomeration and Cost Economies for Washington State Hospital Services
چکیده انگلیسی

Hospital cost efficiency is dependent on the potential to generate cost economies, which imply lower costs for hospitals that are, for example, larger or more diversified. Although scale and scope economies have been recognized in the literature on hospital costs, agglomeration economies due to hospital clustering have received little attention. We consider the impact of such spatial linkages, which may result from labor pooling or knowledge spillovers, by including a measure of other hospitals' proximity in a flexible cost function model. We find significant agglomeration economies for the Washington State hospitals in our dataset; geographic concentration appears to reduce costs for most treatment centers. We also find significant scale economies, and some evidence of scope economies from complementarities between outputs and among treatment centers.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Regional Science and Urban Economics - Volume 38, Issue 6, November 2008, Pages 553–564
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