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 …

Theoretical models of competition with fixed prices suggest that hospitals should compete by increasing quality of care … for diseases with the greatest profitability and demand elasticity. Most empirical evidence regarding hospital competition … within hospitals across quality measures. And second, while we replicate the standard result that greater competition leads …

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 …