Beukers, Puck; Kemp, Ron; Varkevisser, Marco - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 15 (2014) 9, pp. 927-936
In the Dutch health care system, hospitals are expected to compete. A necessary condition for competition among hospitals is that patients do not automatically choose the nearest hospital, but are—at least to some extent—sensitive to differences in hospital quality. In this study, an...