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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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Can labour regulation hinder economic performance? Evidence from India

Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper investigates whether the industrial relations climate in Indian States has affected the pattern of manufacturing growth in the period 1958-92. We show that pro-worker amendments to the Industrial Disputes Act are associated with lowered investment, employment, productivity and output...

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Labour market performance and start-up costs: OECD evidence

Lopez-Garcia, Paloma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper is intended to make a contribution to the empirical literature explaining the rise of unemployment since the 1970s in western economies by means of interactions between shocks and institutions. The contribution is twofold. First, the impact of a general feature of developed economies...

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Law enforcement under incomplete law: theory and evidence from financial market regulation

Pistor, Katharina; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper studies the design of law-making and law enforcement institutions based on the premise that law is inherently incomplete. Under incomplete law, law enforcement by courts may suffer from deterrence failure, defined as the socialwelfare loss that results from the regime's inability to...

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Does planning regulation protect independent retailers?

Sadun, Raffaella - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Entry regulations against big-box retailers have been introduced in many countries to protect smaller independent stores. Using a new dataset from the UK, I show that in fact these entry regulations have been associated with greater employment declines in independent stores they were meant to...

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Smoking risks in Spain: part II - perceptions of environmental tobacco smoke externalities

Rovira, Joan; Kip Viscusi, W.; Antoñanzas, Fernando; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

Previous studies of smoking risk beliefs have focused almost exclusively on risks to the smoker. Using an original set of survey data from Spain, we examine the public’s perceived risks from exposures to environmental tobacco smoke. The risk categories considered included lung cancer, heart...

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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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