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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 … public sector and private sector hospitals on the efficiency of public hospitals. Our identification strategy takes advantage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884637
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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 … market-based reforms. Using AMI mortality as a quality indicator, we find that mortality fell more quickly (i.e. quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884675
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928814
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744844
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745637
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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
the market equilibrium to err in many ways, concerning the number of products, the size and the choice of producers, the … that the extent of the errors depends on the degree of firm heterogeneity. In particular, the inefficiency of the market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745985
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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
) concerning the market for work group servers. In our view, the most important economic issues relate to (a) foreclosure … Microsoft had incentives to exclude rivals in the work group server market through degrading the interoperability of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746007
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746333
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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
results illustrate that hospitals exposed to competition after a wave of market-based reforms took steps to shorten the time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746426
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Automobile replacement: a dynamic structural approach
Schiraldi, Pasquale - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
impact of scrappage subsidies on the Italian automobile market in 1997 and 1998. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746578