host-country research and development effort in response to foreign competition, is one of three examining the impact of …

This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A growth model is … competition (PMC) and innovation is an inverted U-shape. Second, the equilibrium degree of technological neck-and-neckness' among … developed in which competition may increase the incremental profit from innovating; on the other hand, competition may also …

of market structure on quality of health care. The paper then moves on to consider competition in health insurance …

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on … the impact of competition on hospital outcomes. The English government introduced a policy in 2006 to promote competition … competition on not only clinical outcomes but also productivity and expenditure. Our data set is large, containing information on …

implications of these changes for the nature and consequences of competition in health care markets. In this paper, we summarize … industry for competition, efficiency, and public policy. As will become apparent, this area offers a number of intriguing …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … survival rates from emergency heart attack admissions (AMI). More importantly, we find that higher competition (as indicated by …

innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between Ramp;D expenditure, innovation output and …

employees to pursue value-enhancing innovative activities. Using patents and citations as proxies for innovation, we identify … that within a country, innovation and economic growth are fostered by stringent laws governing dismissal of employees …, especially in the more innovation-intensive sectors. Firm-level tests within the United States that exploit a discontinuity …