Product Differentiation and Welfare in a Mixed Duopoly with Regulated Prices : The Case of a Public and a Private Hospital

Hospital markets are often characterised by price regulation and the existence of different ownership types. Using a Hotelling framework, this paper analyses the effect of different objectives of the hospitals on quality, profits, and overall welfare in a price regulated duopoly with symmetric locations. In contrast to other studies on mixed oligopolies, this paper shows that in a duopoly with regulated prices privatisation of the public hospital may increase overall welfare depending on the difference of the hospitals' marginal costs and the weight of the public hospital's motive

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Herr, Annika
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Duopol \| Duopoly \| Theorie \| Theory \| Krankenhaus \| Hospital \| Produktdifferenzierung \| Product differentiation \| Preisregulierung \| Price regulation \| Wohlfahrtsanalyse \| Welfare analysis \| Wettbewerb \| Competition \| Privatwirtschaft \| Private sector \| Öffentliches Unternehmen \| Public enterprise \| Oligopol \| Oligopoly \| Privatisierung \| Privatization

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