This title is about the most important concept underpinning current European Union research policy. It focuses on the notion of the European Research Area, a European 'internal market' for research, whose achievement will become the main objective of EU research policy once the Lisbon Treaty...

States have adopted numerous initiatives to address failed competition and high health care prices in provider markets. In this report, we provide a survey of these activities and provide detail on how these and other possible initiatives can address market consolidation both by creative...

This paper describes a duopoly market for healthcare where one of the two providers is publicly owned and charges a price of zero, while the other sets a price so as to maximize its profit. Both providers are subject to congestion in the form of an M/M/1 queue, and they serve patient-consumers...

This study analyses the impact of ownership conversion on hospital outcomes and social welfare. In the analysis, we apply a Hotelling model, where the private hospital is at the centre of the city and the altruistic public hospital in a suburban area and they compete in treatment quality, after...