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Hospital Cost Function in a Non-Market Health Care System

Daniel Bilodeau¹; Pierre‐Yves Crémieux^1,2; Pierre Ouellette¹

¹ Université du Québec à Montréal · ² Group for Research in Decision Analysis

This paper examines whether a competitive model of the firm appropriately describes the behavior of hospitals in a non-market environment. This test is based on the best database yet available in the hospital sector. We show that properties of the non-market hospitals' cost functions are compatible with short-term, but not long-term, cost-minimizing behavior. This is consistent with results of similar analyses in the U.S. hospital market and suggests that Québec hospitals, which operate in a non-market environment, might not behave fundamentally differently from their U.S. counterparts.

DOI

10.1162/003465300558849

Volume

82 (3)

Pages

489-498

Language

en

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