Hospital Cost Function in a Non-Market Health Care System
利用医院部门最佳数据库，检验竞争模型是否适用于非市场环境中的医院行为，发现其成本函数与短期成本最小化一致，但与长期不符，且与美国的分析结果相似。
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. © 2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology