High prices and insufficient quality of care are observed in nursing homes in France. Reforms are currently under … discussion, but governments are facing a dilemma : any measure of price cut is likely to affect quality and any improvement in … quality would probably be inflationary. This work analyzes if this dilemma can be solved by focusing more particularly on the …

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 …

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 …

Public and private entities around the world are trying to induce the provision of higher-quality health care by … adopting institutional arrangements intended to promote competition among care providers. I selectively survey and supplement … the literature to show that an increase in competition—modeled either as a larger number of care providers or greater …

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

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 …

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 …

We examine whether a hospital's quality is affected by the quality provided by other hospitals in the same market. We … to a sample of English hospitals in 2009–10 and a set of 16 quality measures including mortality rates, readmission …, revision and redo rates, and three patient reported indicators, to examine the relationship between the quality of hospitals …

We examine whether a hospitals quality is affected by the quality provided by other hospitals in the same market. We … methods to a sample of English hospitals in 2009-10 and a set of 16 quality measures including mortality rates, readmission … hospitals. We find that a hospitals quality is positively associated with the quality of its rivals for seven out of the sixteen …

General Practitioners (GP) have limited means to compete. As quality is hard to observe by patients, GPs have … incentives to signal quality by using instruments patients perceive as quality. …