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 …

market competition. We use a circular model with asymmetric production costs both for incumbent firms and potential entrants …, where unit transport cost measures the intensity of competition (quality of infrastructure). The static and dynamic welfare …, as measured by the distribution of costs in the economy, the number of incumbent firms, the degree of market competition …

We propose a methodology for estimating the competition effects from entry when firms sell differentiated products. We … presence and to measure the magnitude of competition effects. We then show how to augment the traditional entry model with a … unbiased estimates of the competition effects from entry. We apply our approach to seven different local service sectors. We …

competition in an export market induces a firm to skew its export sales towards its best performing products. We find very strong …

theory-based econometric specification linking destination-specific exports to foreign demand and the degree of 'crowdedness …

The Profit Elasticity (PE) is a new competition measure introduced in Boone (2008). So far, there was no direct proof … that this measure can identify regimes of competition empirically. This paper focuses on this issue using data of Genesove … and Mullin (1998) in which different regimes of competition are identified. We derive a version of PE suitable for this …

have some endogenous buyer power from the horizontal competition of manufacturers. Our contribution allows to recover price … that the buyer power of supermarket chains is endogenous to the structure of manufacturers competition. …

This paper examines the role of competition in productivity perfromance in Britain over the period from the late …-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. A detailed review of the evidence suggests that the weakness of competition from the … 1930s to the 1970s undermined productivity growth but since the 1970s stronger competition has been a key ingredient in …

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 …