of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is … limited, mainly due to lack of exogenous variation in the degree of competition. In this paper we exploit that many GPs, in … observe the same GP in two different competitive environments; with competition (own practice) and without competition …

piece-rate scheme, individuals in a winner-takes-all competition are significantly less cooperative in the public goods game …. A lottery treatment, where the winner is decided by luck, has the same effect. In a competition treatment with feedback …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … to the steady state. While fiercer competition (lower transportation costs or less sluggish demand) leads to higher … quality in both solutions, the quality response to increased competition is weaker when players use feedback strategies. …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect … of (i) introducing competition (monopoly versus competition) and (ii) increasing competition through lower transportation … structure, we show that the relationship between competition and quality is generally ambiguous. In contrast to the received …