In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … survival rates from emergency heart attack admissions (AMI). More importantly, we find that higher competition (as indicated by …

. 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 …

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on … the impact of competition on hospital outcomes. The English government introduced a policy in 2006 to promote competition … competition on not only clinical outcomes but also productivity and expenditure. Our data set is large, containing information on …

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 … minority group by not introducing competition. Alternatively, if the minority group is favoured by the providers under monopoly …

Provider competition is a currently popular healthcare reform model. A necessary condition for greater competition to …