This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect … structure, we show that the relationship between competition and quality is generally ambiguous. In contrast to the received … of (i) introducing competition (monopoly versus competition) and (ii) increasing competition through lower transportation …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … quality in both solutions, the quality response to increased competition is weaker when players use feedback strategies. … the open-loop solution (providers choose the optimal quality investment plan based on demand at the initial period) and …

conformity. In equilibrium, both quality and cost leaders choose higher advertising intensities and charge higher prices than …

exports. The paper modifies Arkolakis’s (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and … choice of lower-quality products dominates the price distortion effect resulting from credit constraints. However, a … competing theory based on the alternative assumption that quality is exogenous across firms would predict completely opposite …

We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i …. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer budgets … increase quality since parts of the expenditures may be covered by the payer. However, softer budgets reduce cost …

the effect of connecting a household to the grid and of the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The … quality of electricity (in terms of fewer outages and more hours per day) increases non-agricultural incomes by about 28 …

find evidence that high-quality inventions are sold under preemptive bidding competition. Asymmetric information problems …We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are … entrepreneurial effort allocated to high-quality invention projects. Using data on patents granted to small firms and individuals, we …