surgical procedure. We nd substantial impacts of the removal of restrictions. Patients became more responsive to clinical … quality. Sicker patients and better informed patients were more aected. We leverage our model to calculate potential benets …

The determinants of the dramatically rising expenditures on health care in general, and on hospital care in particular … significant impact of social insurance on the demand for hospital trips, the empirical results presented here cast doubts on the …

health care. The review considers several interlocking aspects of the current English choice policy: competition between … hospitals, the responsiveness of patients to greater choice, the provision of information and the use of fixed prices. The paper … concludes that there is neither strong theoretical nor empirical support for competition, but that there are cases where …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … competition (lower transportation costs and/or less sluggish demand) leads to higher quality in both solutions, but the quality … response to increased competition is weaker when players use closed-loop strategies. In both solutions, quality and demand move …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … drops to the minimum level in steady state, implying that quality competition is effectively eliminated. In this case …, static models tend to exaggerate the positive effect of competition on quality. Our results can explain the mixed empirical …

the impact of competition on hospital outcomes. The English government introduced a policy in 2006 to promote competition … between hospitals. Patients were given choice of location for hospital care and provided information on the quality and … approximately 68,000 discharges per year per hospital from 160 hospitals. We find that the effect of competition is to save lives …