One of the reasons why regulators are hesitant about permitting price competition in healthcare markets is that it may … admissions to Dutch hospitals, we find no evidence that increased exposure to price competition reduces quality measured by …

in separate stages, as then firms want to limit the toll competition by setting lower capacities; or when firms set … higher capacities. In our Stackelberg competition, the firms that act last have few if any capacity decisions to influence …. Hence, they are more concerned with the toll-competition substage, and set a higher volume/capacity ratio than sociall y …

, aging-in-place policies come at the cost of increased curative care, especially hospital admissions, and do not reduce total …

Ample evidence is available for the effect of competition on educational quality as only a few countries allow large … scale competition. In the Netherlands free parental choice is present since the beginning of the 20th century, which can be … between competition and educational outcomes in secondary education, but that it is negative and small. This effect is larger …

power have incentives to create insurance markets. Insurer competition will push their profits to zero but markets do not … insurance markets. Insurer competition eliminates profits but not the loss size to uninsured consumers. This provides an …

other ways to strengthen media competition − such as increased polarization and prevention of collusion − critically depends …

We study the employees' demand for hospital parking. We estimate the effect of the employees' parking price on demand …