Different forms of integration

Since no one signed up to present today, we’ll work through a handful of the papers for this topic, namely Thomas G. Koch, Wendling, and Wilson (2017), Thomas G. Koch, Wendling, and Wilson (2021), Dafny, Ho, and Lee (2019), and Schmitt (2018). These papers collectively deal with vertical integration between physicians and hospitals as well as out-of-market horizontal integration.

References

Dafny, Leemore, Kate Ho, and Robin S Lee. 2019. “The Price Effects of Cross-Market Mergers: Theory and Evidence from the Hospital Industry.” RAND Journal of Economics 50 (2): 286–325.

Koch, Thomas G., Brett W. Wendling, and Nathan E. Wilson. 2021. “The Effects of Physician and Hospital Integration on Medicare Beneficiaries’ Health Outcomes.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 103 (4): 725–39. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00924.

Koch, Thomas G, Brett W Wendling, and Nathan E Wilson. 2017. “How Vertical Integration Affects the Quantity and Cost of Care for Medicare Beneficiaries.” Journal of Health Economics 52: 19–32.

Schmitt, Matt. 2018. “Multimarket Contact in the Hospital Industry.” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 10 (3): 361–87.