We develop a duopoly model to analyze the impact of air transport and high-speed rail (HSR) competition on the … a per seat basis only if the market size is large enough. When the HSR operator decides speed, it has incentive to keep … the speed of the train is sufficiently high, the overall level of emissions grows after the introduction of HSR. Therefore …

increases in fees, not decreases, which suggests that quality-based advertising took place, and not price-based advertising. In …

indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces costs without hurting quality. This is clearly the case for …

Ample evidence is available for the effect of competition on educational quality as only a few countries allow large …

Policies aimed to spur quality competition among health care providers are ubiquitous, but their impact on quality is … ex ante ambiguous. This study contributes to the sparse empirical literature on primary care quality by examining the … in more exposed markets, but the effects on primary care quality in these markets were modest: we find small improvements …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … utilities) taking a differential game approach, in which quality is a stock variable. Using a Hotelling framework, we derive the … the marginal provision cost is increasing, investment and quality are lower in the closed-loop solution: in fact, quality …

We analyze the role of quality, which we define as an attribute of a product that increases consumers’ willingness to … buy, as a competitive tool in a quality-price setting. We consider an incumbent’s entry-deterrence strategies using … quality as a deterrent when faced by a potential entrant. We investigate settings motivating the incumbent to blockade the …

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. …