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 …

Using a general-equilibrium simulation model featuring nominal rigidities and monopolistic competition in product and … labor markets, this paper estimates the macroeconomic benefits and international spillovers of an increase in competition …, greater competition produces large effects on macroeconomic performance, as measured by standard indicators. In particular, we …

competition for patient and social welfare are complicated by asymmetric information and moral hazard due to health insurance. We … suggest a new empirical approach to assessing the impact of hospital competition which addresses the shortcomings of existing … methods. We then summarize our main results on the welfare consequences of competition. We conclude with an illustration of …

Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national … competition rules. It is shown that an equilibrium where all countries retain their antitrust laws does not exist, since …