This study examines the impact of competition on hospital quality. Our panel covers all Dutch hospitals in the period 2004–2008, in which the transparency of hospital quality information increased substantially. The paper contributes to the existing literature by including both outcome and...

In many markets there is some form of regulation; and when new policy measures are introduced into a particular sector, the question of how to structure an adequate regulatory process arises. This paper contributes to the literature by describing the approach taken in the nursing home sector in...

The four main approaches to the measurement of total factor productivity (TFP)-growth and its decomposition are (i) Solow's residual analysis, (ii) the Index Number Approach, (iii) Input-Output Analysis (IO), and (iv) Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The corresponding measures of TFP growth are...