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 … of (i) introducing competition (monopoly versus competition) and (ii) increasing competition through lower transportation …

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 …

comprehensive database that covers more than 2,000 hospitals nationwide from 1996 to 2017. We employ a flexible generalized … the impacts on negotiated prices and costs. We also find large heterogeneous responses across hospitals that depend on: (1 …) hospitals’ past charge prices prior to adopting the price transparency law, that is, high-price hospitals reduce charge and …

Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, we explore how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. We … increased their count of hospitals by 8-10 percent in the years after the pandemic. This effect persisted to 1960 and was driven … by increases in non-governmental hospitals. Growth responded most in richer cities, exacerbating existing inequalities in …

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 …

Previous studies on electoral competition show that fiscal variables are manipulated by incumbent politicians in order … economy, by the literature on yardstick competition. Our objective is to consider the effect of the introduction of a fiscal …

expenditure spill-over, tax competition and yardstick competition. However, another source has now been suggested: the …. Results confirm the existence of yardstick competition among Walloon municipalities but not that of behaviors in line with the …

We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i ….e., the payer may cover deficits or confiscate surpluses. The basic set up is a Hotelling model with two hospitals that differ … in location and face demand uncertainty, where the hospitals run deficits (surpluses) in the high (low) demand state …