quality. Under product market competition expenditures on quality should be increasing in the firm's own productivity and …This paper analyses simultaneous regulation of cost and quality when firms have private, correlated information about … productivity and the regulator receives a signal about quality. It is shown that managerial effort and expenditures on quality are …

competition between healthcare providers on prescription of antibiotics. The analysis makes use of a competition-inducing reform … competition had a positive and significant effect on prescription of antibiotics. This increase in prescription of antibiotics was …

domestically-owned firms is through the impact on competition. We examine the effect of FDI on competition in the Chinese … manufacturing sector and the effect of competition on firms’ R&D. Our analysis is conducted on a large dataset including all Chinese … large and medium sized firms over the period 1998-2004. Our results show that FDI increases competition but there are no …

indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces costs without hurting quality. This is clearly the case for … ownership and competition appear to be about equally important for the consequences of public sector outsourcing. …

is pronounced. This behavior can be explained in terms of an informal yardstick competition: When consumers use …

. Using data from Sweden we find that the prices of drugs subject to competition from parallel imports increased less than …

find that the prices of drugs subject to competition from parallel imports fell relative to other drugs over the period …