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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

public sector and private sector hospitals on the efficiency of public hospitals. Our identification strategy takes advantage … reforms forced public sector health care providers to compete with other public hospitals and eventually to face competition … from existing private sector providers for care delivered to publicly funded patients. In this study, we measure efficiency …

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Does hospital competition save lives?: evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms

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

This paper examines whether or not hospital competition in a market with fixed reimbursement prices can prompt improvements in clinical quality. In January 2006, the British Government introduced a major extension of their market-based reforms to the English National Health Service. From January...

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The variance of firm growth rates: the ''scaling'' puzzle

Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

Certain recently reported statistical regularities relating to the dispersion of firms' growth rates have begun to attract attention among IO economists. These relationships take the form of power law or scaling relationships and this has led to suggestions that the underlying mechanisms which...

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Productivity, exporting and the learning-by-exporting hypothesis: direct evidence from UK firms

Crespi, Gustavo; Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Case study evidence suggests that exporting firms learn from their clients. But econometric evidence, mostly using exporting and TFP growth, is mixed. We use a UK panel data set with firm-level information on exporting and productivity. Our innovation is that we also have direct data on the...

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Innovation, reallocation and growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US...

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Monopolistic competition and optimum product selection: why and how heterogeneity matters

Nocco, Antonella; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Salto, Matteo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

After some decades of relative oblivion, the interest in the optimality properties of monopolistic competition has recently re-emerged due to the availability of an appropriate and parsimonious framework to deal with firm heterogeneity. Within this framework we show that non-separable utility,...

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Interoperability and market foreclosure in the European Microsoft case

Kuhn, Kai Uwe; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

In this paper we discuss some of the most important economic issues raised in European Commission vs. Microsoft (2004) concerning the market for work group servers. In our view, the most important economic issues relate to (a) foreclosure incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed...

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Entry, standards and competition : firm strategies and the diffusion of mobile telephony

Koski, Heli; Kretschmer, Tobias - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper studies the effects of a country’s regulatory setting and competitive environment on the performance of second-generation (2G) mobile telecommunication. We consider three dimensions of sector performance: entry time, service prices and diffusion. We address the question of...

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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

This paper uses a difference-in-difference estimator to test whether the introduction of patient choice and hospital competition in the English NHS in January 2006 has prompted hospitals to become more efficient. Efficiency was measured using hospitals’ average length of stay (LOS) for...

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Automobile replacement: a dynamic structural approach

Schiraldi, Pasquale - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper specifies and estimates a structural dynamic model of consumer demand for new and used durable goods. Its primary contribution is to provide an explicit estimation procedure for transaction costs, which are crucial to capturing the dynamic nature of consumer decisions. In particular,...

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