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

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 …

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 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 …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … competition leads to longer waiting times in equilibrium if the competitive segment is sufficiently large. Given a policy regime … of hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling …

. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility …

One of the mechanisms that is implemented in the cost containment wave in the health-care sectors in western countries …. We propose to study the competitive process among providers in terms of both prices and qualities. Competition is … reimbursement scheme when decisions on prices and qualities are taken simultaneously (that we relate to primary health-care sectors …