hospital choices, which may result in a lower degree of competition among hospitals and lower quality. … quality delivered by hospitals, using Italian data. We explore the impact on individual choices of a set of variables such as … individuals and the quality delivered by hospitals. The absence of a source of information on the quality of hospitals accessible …

State Mental Hospitals (SMHs) is presented. The results of the estimation do not lend support to the presence of scale …

This paper investigates patterns of industrial dynamics and competition in the pharmaceutical industry, with particular … reference to the consequences of patent expiry in different countries. We focus on the competition at the level of single … dynamics of original products are affected by generic competition. Our empirical investigation shows that the dynamics of drug …

We study the exit of hospitals from the market for inpatient services. More generous hospital reimbursement … a significant determinant in the early 1990s but in the mid- to late 1990s, less efficient hospitals were significantly …-profit hospitals were more likely to exit. The role of Medicare as a determinant of exit became less important in the latter half of …

Moran y el modelo de rezago espacial (SAR en inglés). The starting point of every competition analysis consists of the … definitive to foresee the effects of some activity or operation (as enterprises merger) on the degree of competition in the …

We study the impact of product market competition on productivity in 462 US manufacturing sectors for the period 1958 … between competition and total factor productivity. We argue that the turning point increases substantially as we move to the … competition measure and quantile estimator. …

of the factors affecting the corporate reputation of hospitals. …. Therefore, the aim of this exploratory research was, to fill this gap in the understanding of corporate reputation of hospitals …

separately examine the effect of each form of market competition on audit fees. We find that advertising is associated with … increases in fees, not decreases, which suggests that quality-based advertising took place, and not price-based advertising. In … as indicating an increase in competition among accounting firms. Our results suggest that there may be a much more …

of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with …In this research we will focus on three topics which we think are particularly relevant for hospital competition: i …) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production …