death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995-2010. The estimates indicate that … the number of hospital days. Real per capita pharmaceutical expenditure increased rapidly during this period, but 62% of … the increase in pharmaceutical expenditure was offset by a reduction in hospital expenditure attributable to …

California disaster. Part of the explanation for these difficulties stems from past successful liberalization and deregulation … experiences in other areas suggesting that competition could provide large benefits to hitherto regulated utilities in local …

more intense competition may have the negative side-effect of eroding tax revenues by increasing tax evasion. This will be … weakly concave or convex and inelastic. The desirable result of more competition, less evasion and higher tax revenues will …

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …

This paper investigates how group membership and competition among trustors interact with trust and trustworthiness in … competition leads to a decrease in trustworthiness, especially among partners. We argue that once competition comes into play …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … to the steady state. While fiercer competition (lower transportation costs or less sluggish demand) leads to higher … quality in both solutions, the quality response to increased competition is weaker when players use feedback strategies. …