health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an …, competition can improve equity by forcing the providers to increase quality for the majority group. …In this paper we focus on the implications of consumer heterogeneity for whether competition will improve outcomes in …

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on … between hospitals. Patients were given choice of location for hospital care and provided information on the quality and … approximately 68,000 discharges per year per hospital from 160 hospitals. We find that the effect of competition is to save lives …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment … competition leads to longer waiting times in equilibrium if the competitive segment is sufficiently large. Given a policy regime …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … drops to the minimum level in steady state, implying that quality competition is effectively eliminated. In this case …, static models tend to exaggerate the positive effect of competition on quality. Our results can explain the mixed empirical …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … competition (lower transportation costs and/or less sluggish demand) leads to higher quality in both solutions, but the quality … response to increased competition is weaker when players use closed-loop strategies. In both solutions, quality and demand move …

Provider competition is a currently popular healthcare reform model. A necessary condition for greater competition to … improve quality is that providers will face higher demand if they improve their quality. We test this crucial assumption in an … family doctor practices. We find that patients do respond to quality: a one standard deviation increase in a publicly …

This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price …

providers can increase demand by increasing quality but can also inflate activity through a manipulative effort (upcoding or DRG … reported output is additive in quality and manipulation, we find that, if price is exogenously determined, the frequency of an … manipulation, quality and reported output are higher. If price is endogenous (i.e. it can be optimally chosen by the purchaser …

is of the export-fragmentation variety; (ii) trade openness, free trade agreements and institutional quality do not … impact non-resource FDI but institutional quality does have a positive effect on resource FDI; and (iii) the short …