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Keywords
Health Care; Productivity; Economies of Scale; Economies of Scope; Spillovers; Econometrics
Journal Article
Freeman M., Savva N., Scholtes S. (2021). Economies of Scale and Scope in Hospitals: An Empirical Study of Volume Spillovers Management Science, 67(2), pp. 673-697.
General hospitals across the world are becoming larger (i.e. admitting more patients each year) and more complex (i.e. offering a wider range of services to higher acuity patients with more diverse care needs). Although prior work has shown that increased volume is positively associated with patient outcomes, it is less clear how volume affects costs in these complex organizations.