Policies aimed to spur quality competition among health care providers are ubiquitous, but their impact on quality is … ex ante ambiguous. This study contributes to the sparse empirical literature on primary care quality by examining the … heterogeneous impact of recent competition enhancing reforms in Sweden. The reforms led to substantially more entry of new providers …

In this paper, we test one of the fundamental assumptions in the tax competition literature, namely, that a country … interdependent tax setting behaviour is evidence of tax competition. However, taxable corporate income is shown to react … neighbouring countries' tax policies, which is in contrast to the classic asymmetric tax competition literature. …

volumes at Swedish public sector hospitals. Using detailed register data on more than 100,000 episodes of advanced cancer …

. We consider the competition between public and private hospitals - and the rules supervising the financial agreements …In recent years, the accreditation of private hospitals followed by the decentralisation of the Italian NHS into 21 …, succeeds in driving CBM flows towards accredited private hospitals. We assume that some northern and central regions accredited …

surplus-sharing and product differentiation, it is chosen by the second mover to avoid Bertrand competition. The equilibrium …

We examine the impact of competition on firms' leniency towards their customers in a heavily regulated market, which is … effects and instrumental variable estimates of the effect of competition on firms' incentive to be lenient to their customers. …

This paper examines the effect of competition on a firm's choice of opening hours in the motor vehicle inspection … market. Competition affects the incentive inspection firms face when choosing opening hours, which influences the probability … that increased competition, measured using both the number of firms in a geographic market and average distance to nearby …