Consolidations and closures: an empirica
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Teresa D. Harrison
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract This paper investigates the preβexit characteristics of hospital mergers, acquisitions, and closures. We estimate competing risk hazard models using an 18βyear national data set that spans the wave of closures in the 1980s and of mergers in the 1990s. Evidence shows that weak productivi