health care system is to encourage providers to keep costs down without skimping on quality. The purpose of this paper is to … analyse the effect of price regulation and free choice on quality in physiotherapy organised by the Social Insurance … effect of the regulation and for this task we have defined the regulated and non-regulated firms and their quality before and …

. Combining legal research and qualitative data allowed general conclusions to be drawn with regard to the quality assessment of …

suggest that the intended effects of quality regulation on price competition through increased (perceived) quality of generics …We study the effects of quality regulation on market outcomes by exploiting the staggered phase-in of bioequivalence …

suggest that the intended effects of quality regulation on price competition through increased (perceived) quality of generics …We study the effects of quality regulation on market outcomes by exploiting the staggered phase-in of bioequivalence …

-yardstick mechanism. The redistribution of the sector's relevant cost is made in proportion to the individual hospitals share of total … weighted output. No regulation is made of the multi-lateral contractual relations between users, insurers and hospitals. The …

Quality regulation attempts to ensure quality and foster competition by reducing vertical differentiation, but it may …, which is the primary quality standard for generic drugs. Exploiting the introduction of bioequivalence in Chile, we find … estimate a model of drug entry, certification, and demand to study the role of drug quality, aversion against generics, and …

offered by drug card sponsors to Medicare eligible, with the hope of promoting competition among sponsors. This paper utilizes … promoting competition between drug card sponsors? v) How are the observed effects related to the design and the institutional …

Quality regulation attempts to ensure quality and to foster price competition by reducing vertical differentiation, but … effects of quality regulation on price competition through increased (perceived) quality of generics were overturned by … pharmaceutical bioequivalence, which is the primary quality standard for generic drugs. Exploiting the staggered phase-in of …

the history of government-sponsored information release aimed at promoting competition by facilitating access to prices. A … be reconciled with models of dynamic price competition with consumer switching costs as in Klemperer (1987a,b). The …