In this paper we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The paper begins with a … ways that might affect the optimality of competition. The paper then focuses on the main areas in which antitrust has been …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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