improve quality is that providers will face higher demand if they improve their quality. We test this crucial assumption in an … family doctor practices. We find that patients do respond to quality: a one standard deviation increase in a publicly … available measure of clinical quality would increase the number of patients a practice would attract by around 15%. …

health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an … effective way to increase the quality signal and attract patients. A regulator who is concerned about equity may protect the …, competition can improve equity by forcing the providers to increase quality for the majority group. …

performance, productivity, waiting times and clinical quality and find little evidence that mergers achieved gains other than a …

performance, productivity, waiting times and clinical quality and find little evidence that mergers achieved gains other than a …

improve quality is that providers will face higher demand if they improve their quality. We test this crucial assumption in an … family doctor practices. We find that patients do respond to quality: a one standard deviation increase in a publicly … available measure of clinical quality would increase the number of patients a practice would attract by around 15%. …

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on … between hospitals. Patients were given choice of location for hospital care and provided information on the quality and …

health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an … effective way to increase the quality signal and attract patients. A regulator who is concerned about equity may protect the …, competition can improve equity by forcing the providers to increase quality for the majority group. …

performance, productivity, waiting times and clinical quality and find little evidence that mergers achieved gains other than a …

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on … between hospitals. Patients were given choice of location for hospital care and provided information on the quality and …