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 …

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 …

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 …

We present a model of optimal contracting between a purchaser and a provider of health services when quality has two …

: a) providers differ in efficiency and there are two types of provider; b) efficiency is private information (adverse … selection); c) providers are partially altruistic or intrinsically motivated; d) they have limited liability. Four types of …