TY  - JOUR
AU  - Barro, Jason R
AU  - Cutler, David
TI  - Consolidation in the Medical Care Marketplace: A Case Study from Masschusetts
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5957
PY  - 1997
Y2  - March 1997
DO  - 10.3386/w5957
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5957
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5957.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jason Barro
280 Beacon St . #54
Boston, MA 02116
Tel: 617/267-4139
Fax: 617/496-7167
E-Mail: jason.barro@post.harvard.edu

David M. Cutler
Department of Economics
Harvard University
1875 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/496-5216
Fax: 617/496-8951
E-Mail: dcutler@harvard.edu
M1  - published as Jason Barro, David M. Cutler. "Consolidation in the Medical Care Marketplace,A Case Study from Massachusetts," in Steven N. Kaplan, editor, "Mergers and Productivity" University of Chicago Press (2000)

AB  - This paper examines consolidation in the Massachusetts hospital market.  We find that consolidation is driven primarily by a large decline in the demand for hospital beds, resulting from increased enrollment in managed care and technological changes. The drive to consolidate appears through three primary forces: consolidation for closure; consolidation for economies of scale; and consolidation for network creation.
ER  -