Similar Search Results

The Impact of EU Competition Law on National Healthcare Systems

Sauter, Wolf - 2013

Whereas the EU's internal market rules govern market access and public intervention, its competition rules are … concerned with the market conduct of private parties. When do the competition rules apply to healthcare? In principle the scope … for application of the competition rules to the healthcare sector is largely defined by the Member States themselves. This …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090330

Harmonisation in Healthcare : The EU Patients’ Rights Directive

Sauter, Wolf - 2011

In the EU harmonisation of healthcare has long been elusive. Article 168 paragraph 7 TFEU even forms a sector-specific subsidiarity clause. Meanwhile the ECJ handed down a series of judgments concerning patients' rights to reimbursement for healthcare consumed in other Member States. An initial...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124138

The Role of Competition Rules in the Context of Healthcare Reform in the Netherlands

Sauter, Wolf - 2010

The Netherlands is an early mover in healthcare liberalisation. It has a dual policy towards competition enforcement in … the sector: not only the general competition rules (the prohibitions on cartels and the abuse of dominance, and merger … control) but also rules of sector specific competition policy apply. Consequently the general Competition Authority and the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198409

An Analysis of the General Consumer Interest as a Source of Regulatory Legitimacy in the Case of the Dutch Healthcare Authority

Sauter, Wolf - 2009

Economic regulation by independent regulatory authorities is justified in a legal sense by theories based on delegation, (partial) ministerial responsibility and judicial review, or more recently on regulatory contracts and stakeholder representation. While none of these models is fully...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207697

Energy utilities and competitiveness

FitzGerald, John D. (contributor); … - 1995

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000907786

Vertical Restraints in Health Care Markets

Halbersma, Rein - 2011

We analyze health care option demand markets with vertical restraints divided along two dimensions: naked and conditional exclusion, and vertical integration; applicable to the upstream, the downstream, and both markets. Our unified framework includes forward and backward integration, and joint...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131053

Ownership and Control in a Competitive Industry

Karle, Heiko; Klein, Tobias J.; Stahl, Konrad O. - 2011

We study a differentiated product market in which an investor initially owns a controlling stake in one of two competing firms and may acquire a non-controlling or a controlling stake in a competitor, either directly using her own assets, or indirectly via the controlled firm. While industry...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185645