We examine whether a hospitals quality is affected by the quality provided by other hospitals in the same market. We … methods to a sample of English hospitals in 2009-10 and a set of 16 quality measures including mortality rates, readmission … hospitals. We find that a hospitals quality is positively associated with the quality of its rivals for seven out of the sixteen …

We examine how public sector third-party purchasers and hospitals negotiate quality targets when a fixed proportion of …

Prospective payment systems are currently used in many OECD countries, where hospitals are paid a fixed price for each … patient treated. We develop a theoretical model to analyse the properties of the optimal fixed prices to be paid to hospitals … decreasing and the cost function is the (commonly used) power function, the optimal price adjustment for hospitals with higher …