ABSTRACT: This paper uses a two-sided market model of hospital competition to study the implications of different remunerations schemes on the physicians'side. The two-sided market approach is characterized by the concept of common network externality (CNE)introduced by Bardey et al. (2010)....

Abstract: This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the quality of education depends on peer group"" effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the second stage they fix their tuition fees. We...

We study competition in two sided markets with common network externality rather than with the standard inter-group e¤ects. This type of externality occurs when both groups bene…t, possibly with di¤erent intensities, from an increase in the size of one group and from a decrease in the size of...