The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on … competition on not only clinical outcomes but also productivity and expenditure. Our data set is large, containing information on …

The US health care sector is large and growing - health care spending in 2011 amounted to $2.7 trillion and 18% of GDP …. Approximately half of health care output is allocated via markets. In this paper, we analyze the industrial organization literature … on health care markets focusing on the impact of competition on price, quality and treatment decisions for health care …