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U.S. healthcare : a story of rising market power, barriers to entry, and supply constraints
Lin, Li; Mrkaic, Mico; Weber, Anke - 2021
Healthcare in the United States is the most expensive in the world, with real per capita spending growth averaging 4 percent since 1980. This paper examines the role of market power of U.S. healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies. It finds that markups (the ability to charge prices...
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Monopolistic competition and costs in the health care sector
Kumpmann, Ingmar - 2009
Gesundheitswesen diskutiert. In diesem Papier wird argumentiert, dass er diese Funktion möglicherweise nicht erfüllt, wenn die … Leistungserbringer auf dem Gesundheitsmarkt über Marktmacht verfügen. Ärzte besitzen einen monopolistischen Vorteil, der mit Chamberlins … MonopolKrankenversicherung kann die starke Verhandlungsposition der Ärzte ausgleichen und niedrigere Kosten durchsetzen. -- Gesundheitswesen …
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Entry and exit of physicians in a two-tiered public/private health care system
Gächter, Martin; Schwazer, Peter; Theurl, Engelbert - 2011
Firm turnover has recently attracted increased interest in economic research. The entry of new firms increases competition and promises efficiency gains. Moreover, changes in the market structure influence productivity growth, because firm entry usually leads to increased innovation. The health...
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Entry and exit of physicians in a two-tiered public/private health care system
Gächter, Martin; Schwazer, Peter; Theurl, Engelbert - 2011
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Cut off from new competition : threat of entry and health care quality
Brüll, Eduard; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Schlenker, Oliver - 2024
We study how the threat of entry affects service quantity and quality of general practitioners (GPs). We leverage Germany's needs-based primary care planning system, in which the likelihood of new GPs reduces by 20 percentage points when primary care coverage exceeds a cut-off. We compile novel...
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Vertical bargaining and retail competition : what drives countervailing power?
Gaudin, Germain - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of mergers, entry, and exit in retail markets when input prices are negotiated. Results are derived from a model of bilateral Nash-bargaining between manufacturers and retailers which allows for general forms of demand and retail competition. Whether...
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Vertical bargaining and retail competition : what drives countervailing power?
Gaudin, Germain - 2017
This paper investigates the effects of changes in retail market concentration when input prices are negotiated. Results are derived from a model of bilateral Nash-bargaining between upstream and downstream firms which allows for general forms of demand and retail competition. Whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654786
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Inferring Market Power Under the Threat of Entry : The Case of the Brazilian Cement Industry
Salvo, Alberto - 2012
Consider a setting where threatened rather than actual import competition restrains a domestic oligopoly's prices. I show that not modeling the entry threat may underestimate the true degree of market power, as incumbents' blunted price responses to demand shocks resemble perfectly-competitive...
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Market power, transactions costs, and the entry of accountable care organizations in health care
Frech, Henry Edward; Whaley, Christopher; Handel, … - In: Review of industrial organization : RIO 47 (2015) 2, pp. 167-193
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Entry and competition of healthcare providers in Slovakia : a spatial analysis
Mandžák, Peter; Lábaj, Martin - 2020
We study the relationship between market size and a number of firms in several healthcare professions in Slovakia to provide a new evidence about their entry decisions and a toughness of competition in the market. The size of a local market to support the entry of the first general practitioner...
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