Publications by authors named "Johann Han"
Strategic behaviour and decision making in competitive hospital markets: an experimental investigation.
Int J Health Econ Manag
September 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study looks at how hospitals compete in providing quality care for patients while considering how decisions are made.
- They used a lab experiment where people decided on quality for three different hospitals, either alone or in teams.
- Results showed that hospitals tend to lower quality when they see competitors doing the same, and team decisions were less influenced by others, often leading to different quality choices.
On the basis of a Salop model with regulated prices, we investigate quality provision behaviour of competing hospitals before and after a merger. For this, we use a controlled laboratory experiment where subjects decided on the level of treatment quality as head of a hospital. We find that the post-merger average quality is significantly lower than the average pre-merger quality.
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