: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of …

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 …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … survival rates from emergency heart attack admissions (AMI). More importantly, we find that higher competition (as indicated by …

In the last CentrePiece, John Van Reenen stressed the importance of competition and labour market flexibility for …

) for workers? Many critics of “neo-libéralisme sauvage” have argued that increased competition from globalisation is … workers. These findings are inconsistent with the view that competition, globalisation and “Anglo-Saxon” management practices …

competition is weak and/or when (b) family-owned firms pass management control down to the eldest sons (primo geniture). European … firms report lower levels of competition, while French and British firms also report substantially higher levels of primo … market competition and family firms account for about half of the long tail of badly managed firms and up to two thirds of …

: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of …