This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect … of (i) introducing competition (monopoly versus competition) and (ii) increasing competition through lower transportation … costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number of hospitals. With semi-altruistic providers and a fairly general cost …

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …

This study investigates hospitals' dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price …

A country with Cournot competition and free entry experiences an increase of its market size either due to economic … growth or international integration of goods markets. The implied increase in competition leads to shrinking mark-ups and … terms can even lose in real terms. From a quantitative perspective, international competition is shown to be the more …