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Can Competition Reduce Quality?
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2014
In a spatial competition setting there is usually a non-negative relationship between competition and quality. In this paper we offer a novel mechanism whereby competition leads to lower quality. This mechanism relies on two key assumptions, namely that the providers are motivated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057658
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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2021
Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients’ right to EU-wide provider choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315635
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Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2010
We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152862
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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
care services. We consider survey data for the years 1993-2007 with information on both individuals' perceived health and … their utilization of health care services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via a fixed … with a clearer decrease in the utilization of emergency services. We also find mild evidence of reduced satisfaction with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994701
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Nursing Home Choice, Family Bargaining and Optimal Policy in a Hotelling Economy
Leroux, M.‐L. - 2016
The family plays a central role in decisions relative to the provision of long term care (LTC). We develop a model of family bargaining to study the impact of the distribution of bargaining power within the family on the choices of nursing homes, and on the location and prices chosen by nursing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989507
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Hospital Competition with Soft Budgets
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087727
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Average-Cost Pricing and Dynamic Selection Incentives in the Hospital Sector
Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - 2021
spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315576
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Horizontal Mergers and Product Quality
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2015
We study the effects of horizontal mergers when firms compete on quality and price. Two key factors are identified: (i) the magnitude of variable quality costs, and (ii) the relative magnitudes of cross-quality and cross-price effects on demand. The merging firms will increase (reduce) both...
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A Note on Brain Gain and Brain Drain : Permanent Migration and Education Policy
Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2021
In this note, we present a novel channel for a brain gain. Students from a developing country study in a developed host country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in the first place. However, it induces the host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316173
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Airline Emission Charges : Effects on Airfares, Service Quality, and Aircraft Design
Brueckner, Jan K.; Zhang, Anming - 2021
This paper explores the effect of airline emissions charges on airfares, airline service quality, aircraft design features, and network structure, using a detailed and realistic theoretical model of competing duopoly airlines. These impacts are derived by analyzing the effects of an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316403