We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect … structure, we show that the relationship between competition and quality is generally ambiguous. In contrast to the received …

We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i …. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer budgets … increase quality since parts of the expenditures may be covered by the payer. However, softer budgets reduce cost …

' management competency is associated with a 7.5 percent improvement in sales productivity and a 29.2 increase in profitability … heterogeneity such as firm characteristics and resources. After decomposition, a difference of 6.6 percent in management quality …

s, and find no evidence that codetermination laws shift aggregate economic outcomes or the quality of industrial …

product quality explain twice as much of the variation in export revenues than cost. …

the importance of representative consumer taste relative to quality and marginal cost in export success. We find …

exports. The paper modifies Arkolakis's (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and … choice of lower-quality products dominates the price distortion effect resulting from credit constraints. However, a … competing theory based on the alternative assumption that quality is exogenous across firms would predict completely opposite …

s, and find no evidence that codetermination laws shift aggregate economic outcomes or the quality of industrial …