In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as …

hospitals in a geographical area. We find that higher competition is positively correlated with management quality, measured …We analyze the causal impact of competition on managerial quality (and hospital performance). To address the … using a new survey tool. Adding a rival hospital increases management quality by 0.4 standard deviations and increases …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as …

Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of good management for firm performance. Here, we focus on management … in not-for-profits (NFPs). We present a model predicting that management quality will be lower in NFPs compared to for …-profits (FPs), but that outputs may not be worse if managers are altruistic. Using a tried and tested survey of management …

Provider competition is a currently popular healthcare reform model. A necessary condition for greater competition to …

In this paper we focus on the implications of consumer heterogeneity for whether competition will improve outcomes in … health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an … minority group by not introducing competition. Alternatively, if the minority group is favoured by the providers under monopoly …

Provider competition is a currently popular healthcare reform model. A necessary condition for greater competition to …