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Does competition improve public hospitals’ efficiency?: evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service

Cooper, Zack; Gibbons, Stephen; Jones, Simon; McGuire, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper uses a difference-in-difference style estimation strategy to test separately the impact of competition from … reforms forced public sector health care providers to compete with other public hospitals and eventually to face competition … efficiency. Our results suggest that competition between public providers prompted public hospitals to improve their productivity …

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Survey on competing in network industries : firm strategies, market outcomes, and policy implications

Koski, Heli; Kretschmer, Tobias - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

We review the recent literature on market structure, firm strategies and public policy in network industries. In particular, we focus on the latest applied work, including case studies and empirical work as well as refinements of the established theoretical results. We group each set of results...

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Game-theoretic models of market structure

Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996

This paper reviews the recent literature on game-theoretic models of market structure and their empirical implementation.

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The size distribution of businesses, part I: a benchmark case

Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995

This paper examines the evolution of a skew distribution of firm sizes from the viewpoint of the 'Bounds' approach to market structure. It confines attention to the role played by non-strategic factors (statistical independence, and cost sideeffects). A model is proposed, which leads to a...

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Multiple-product firms and product switching

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper examines the frequency, pervasiveness, and determinants of product switching by US manufacturing firms. We find that one-half of firms alter their mix of five-digit SIC products every five years, that product switching is correlated with both firm- and firm-product attributes, and...

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One smart agent

Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995

This paper proposes an equilibrium concept for a class of games in which players make irreversible costly decisions; these games have been widely used in the recent I.O. literature. The equilibrium concept is defined, not in the space of strategies, but in the space of (observable) outcomes. It...

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Does hospital competition improve efficiency? An analysis of the recent market-based reforms to the English NHS

Cooper, Zack; Gibbons, Stephen; Jones, Simon; McGuire, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

competition in the English NHS in January 2006 has prompted hospitals to become more efficient. Efficiency was measured using … results illustrate that hospitals exposed to competition after a wave of market-based reforms took steps to shorten the time … results suggest that hospital competition within markets with fixed prices can increase hospital efficiency. …

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Game theoretical models of market structure

Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996

This paper reviews the recent literature on game-theoretic models of market structure and their empirical implementation.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126329

Gibrat's legacy

Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996

This paper traces the time series (?Growth of Firms?) tradition in the study of market structure and looks at how recent studies on entry and the size distribution of firms have modified thinking in this area.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071531

A British industrial success: productivity in the Lancashire and New England cotton spinning industries a century ago

Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

stems from more intensive competition, manifested through external economies of scale and longer production runs. We finish …

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