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Brekke, Kurt R. - 2015

demand. The merging firms will increase (reduce) both quality and price if the degree of competition is sufficiently stronger …

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Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices

Brekke, Kurt R. - 2010

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 … structure, we show that the relationship between competition and quality is generally ambiguous. In contrast to the received …

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Impure Prosocial Motivation in Charity Provision : Warm-Glow Charities and Implications for Public Funding

Scharf, Kimberly A. - 2013

We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non-verifiable. Government funding arrangements, on the other...

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Competition in Public Service Provision : The Role of Not-for-Profit Providers

Besley, Timothy - 2018

developing a novel approach to competition between different organizational forms, it frames the relevant trade-offs precisely …

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Measuring Strategic Firm Interaction in Product-Quality Choices : The Case of Airline Flight Frequency

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2013

multimarket contact generates mutual forbearance in frequency competition, finding no evidence for such an effect …

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Hospital Competition with Soft Budgets

Brekke, Kurt R. - 2013

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...

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Do Market Incentives for Hospitals Affect Health and Service Utilization? Evidence from PPS-DRG Tariffs in Italian Regions

Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2016

We exploit variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of region-specific tariffs within a Prospective Pay System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health care services. We consider survey data for the years...

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Competition and Quality in Regulated Markets with Sluggish Demand

Brekke, Kurt R. - 2010

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … to the steady state. While fiercer competition (lower transportation costs or less sluggish demand) leads to higher … quality in both solutions, the quality response to increased competition is weaker when players use feedback strategies …

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Are Donors Afraid of Charities' Core Costs? Scale Economies in Non-Profit Provision and Charity Selection

Perroni, Carlo - 2015

through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, in the non-profit case the …

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Salience in Retailing : Vertical Restraints on Internet Sales

Helfrich, Magdalena - 2017

We provide an explanation for a frequently observed vertical restraint in ecommerce, namely that brand manufacturers partially or completely prohibit that retailers distribute their high-quality products over the internet. Our analysis is based on the assumption that a consumer's purchasing...

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