review the large empirical literature on the strategic determination of hospital prices through the lens of this model …

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

rapidly. At present it consists entirely of work on hospital markets. The bulk of the empirical evidence for Medicare patients …

In many health care systems primary care physicians act as ‘gatekeepers’ to secondary care. We investigates the impact …

publication of waiting times data at hospital level and strong sanctions for poor performing hospital managers. This regime has … been dubbed ‘targets and terror’. We estimate the effect of the English target regime for waiting times for hospital care … after 2001 by a comparative analysis with Scotland, a neighbouring country with the same healthcare system that did not …

and space to identify the impact of competition. Using data on mortality as a measure of hospital quality and exploiting …

husband’s wages. Consistent with this but, in contrast to results for richer countries, antenatal and postnatal health-care …