. Competition from venture capitalists increases corporate venturing activity, the salaries of potential entrepreneurs, and total …

health care. The review considers several interlocking aspects of the current English choice policy: competition between … concludes that there is neither strong theoretical nor empirical support for competition, but that there are cases where … competition has improved outcomes. The paper ends with a discussion of the implications of this literature for policies to promote …

This paper analyses the impact of competition among downstream firms on an upstream firm's payoff and on its incentive … to vertically integrate when firms on both segments negotiate optimal contracts. We argue that tougher competition … firm is better off encouraging competition when the downstream firms have high bargaining power. We derive implications on …

Payer-driven competition has been widely advocated as a means of increasing efficiency in health care markets. The 1990 …s reforms to the UK health service followed this path. We examine whether competition led to better outcomes for … patients, as measured by death rates after treatment following heart attacks. We exploit differences in competition over time …