Halonen-Akatwijuka, Maija; Propper, Carol - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2012
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 …