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Competition, quality and integrated health care

Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - In: Journal of health economics 95 (2024), pp. 1-22

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Do Hospital Mergers Reduce Waiting Times? Theory and Evidence from the English NHS

Cirulli, Vanessa; Marini, Giorgia; Marini, Marco A.; … - 2023

We analyse – theoretically and empirically – the effect of hospital mergers on waiting times in healthcare markets … long panel of data on hospital mergers in the English NHS, where we find that the effects of a merger on waiting times … crucially rely on a legal status that can reasonably be linked to the degree of profit-orientation. Whereas hospital mergers …

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Investment and quality competition in healthcare markets

Ghandour, Ziad; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - In: Journal of health economics 82 (2022), pp. 1-20

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Competition, Quality and Integrated Health Care

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2022

Integration of health care services has been promoted in several countries to improve the quality and coordination of care. We investigate the effects of such integration in a model where providers compete on quality to attract patients under regulated prices. We identify circumstances under...

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Patient mobility, health care quality and welfare

Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2014

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...

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