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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884637
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928671
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928801
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744822
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745219
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746422
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746426
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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
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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
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The remains of regulation: airlines' profits after liberalization
Marin, Pedro L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995
This paper develops an empirical model of entry to analyze the effect of previous regulation on European airlines? post-liberalization profits. The author distinguishes between European flag carriers, which are hightly regulated at the beginning of the eighties, and independent airlines. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928653