on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. A decentralised solution without patient mobility leads to too …

Performance indicators are increasingly used to regulate quality in health care and other areas of the public sector … receive a low benefit from health care because quality is low then higher inequality aversion increases the optimal level of …

One of the mechanisms that is implemented in the cost containment wave in the health-care sectors in western countries … reimbursement scheme when decisions on prices and qualities are taken simultaneously (that we relate to primary health-care sectors … solution when decisions are sequential (specialized health-care sector). We also derive some normative conclusions on the way …

We estimate the impact of health insurance coverage beyond National Health Insurance on the demand for several health … on the most common health insurance plan in Portugal, ADSE, which is given to all civil servants and their dependants. We … argue this insurance is exogenous i.e. not correlated with beneficiaries’ health status. This identifying assumption allows …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public …

characterization of patient selection. …

state. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer …

health gains, providers’ altruism and the opportunity cost of public funds. We derive optimal prices for processes … incentivised in the Best Practice Tariffs for emergency stroke care in the English National Health Service. Based on published … estimates, we compare these to the prices set by the English Department of Health. We find that actual tariffs were lower than …