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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 …. This paper assesses whether this aim has been achieved and competition led to improvements in quality. For our estimation … improved) for patients living in more competitive markets after the introduction of hospital competition in January 2006. Our …

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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

-standards competition triggers less aggressive price competition than between-standards competition. We also find that an early monopolist …

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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) - 2011

competitive markets. Our results suggest that hospital competition can lead to improvements in hospital quality. …

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Climate change and sustainable welfare: an argument for the centrality of human needs

Gough, Ian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Since climate change threatens human wellbeing across the globe and into the future, we require a concept of wellbeing that encompasses an equivalent ambit. This paper argues that only a concept of human need can do the work required. It compares need theory with three alternative approaches....

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Hayek on the wisdom of prices: a reassessment

Bronk, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper re-examines Hayek’s insights into the problem of knowledge in markets, and argues that his analysis remains pertinent but has serious flaws. His central thesis—that the market price system is essential for communicating information and coordinating transactions wherever knowledge...

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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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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 …

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