admissions to Dutch hospitals, we find no evidence that increased exposure to price competition reduces quality measured by …One of the reasons why regulators are hesitant about permitting price competition in healthcare markets is that it may … damage quality when information is poor. Evidence on whether this fear is well-founded is scarce. We provide evidence using a …

competition, akin to the competition in wholesale electricity markets. An acute form of market power may arise if a supplier is …

We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in … knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices and some know …-inefficiency of the price/quality offers. But, better price/quality combinations are signalled with lower prices in one type and with …

Ample evidence is available for the effect of competition on educational quality as only a few countries allow large … scale competition. In the Netherlands free parental choice is present since the beginning of the 20th century, which can be … between competition and educational outcomes in secondary education, but that it is negative and small. This effect is larger …