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

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 …

insurance system that relies most heavily on the tools of regulated competition with more than 60% of its enrollees enrolled in … a private health plan in 2014. However, regulated competition in Medicaid differs from the typical model, emphasizing … competition and some potential consequences of this hybrid model …

of the individual insurance market, the Marketplaces invoke many of the principles of regulated competition including … the tools of regulated competition. We then discuss ways in which the Marketplace model deviates from the more …

The goal of this paper is to identify key issues concerning the nature of competition in health care markets and its … topic. The theoretical literature in economics on competition and quality, the theoretical literature in health economics on … this topic, and the empirical findings on competition and quality in health care markets are surveyed and their findings …

We investigate the impact of access to convenience stores and competition between convenience store chains on medical … levels of inter-brand competition reduce the use and cost of outpatient medical services and prescription drugs, healthcare … utilization is more responsive to changes in competition. Since convenience stores in Taiwan are typically the healthier option …