, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform …

care services. We consider survey data for the years 1993-2007 with information on both individualsÄ 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 …

We develop a dynamic model of hospital competition where (i) waiting times increase if demand exceeds supply; (ii …) patients choose a hospital based in part on waiting times; and (iii) hospitals incur waiting time penalties. We show that …, whereas policies based on penalties will lead to lower waiting times, policies that promote patient choice will instead lead …

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice …

urban-rural gap in public infrastructure. Leftwing governments relocate hospital beds from rural regions. We propose that … leftwing governments do so to gratify their more urban constituencies. In turn, spatial inequalities in hospital infrastructure …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect …