on health care markets focusing on the impact of competition on price, quality and treatment decisions for health care …

provides an introduction to the economics of 2SPs and its application to several competition policy issues …

rival hospitals, and lower premiums. Competition for enrollees forces non-integrated insurers to provide additional coverage … to high-quality non-integrated hospitals, resulting in plan networks that limit hospital competition. Whereas vertical … integration reduces double marginalization, skewed cost-sharing structures--and their effect on hospital competition--more than …

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 …

degree of competition in a market with the share of nonprofits: the availability of economic profits under for-profit status …

In this paper we outline the tools that have been developed to model and analyze competition and regulation in health … sections: (i) papers considering competition and price-setting among insurers and providers and (ii) papers focused … specifically on insurance and market design. The former set of papers is largely concerned with models of oligopolistic competition …

the effects of upstream competition vary with distance to frontier on a panel of 15 OECD countries and 20 sectors over …