Many health care systems aim to enhance hospital quality by encouraging competition. However, evidence on the … relationship between quality and competition is inconclusive. My contribution to this literature is two-fold. Analyzing the … relationship between competition and quality for the German hospital market can give valuable insights about the nature of the …

We estimate a bargaining model of competition between hospitals and managed care organizations (MCOs) and use the … hospitals. We show that increasing patient coinsurance tenfold would reduce prices by 16%. We find that a proposed hospital …

-for-performance (P4P) programs have been implemented in the inpatient sector to improve the quality of care provided by hospitals …

insurers market their products to consumers based, in part, on the quality and breadth of their provider network. We then …. Variation in the quality of health care clearly can have large welfare consequences. We therefore also describe the theoretical … and empirical literature on the impact of market structure on quality of health care. The chapter then moves on to …

integration between insurers and hospitals, we develop a model of bargaining and competition. Integrated firms have incentives to … claims and plans from Chile, where vertically integrated hospitals account for half of all admissions. Our estimates imply …

individual hospitals are buying from only two, or in some instances one seller. Given this backdrop, we develop a theoretical … how decisions are made and how suppliers bargain with hospitals. …

drug substitution and competition. Since 2006, Germany follows an innovative approach by differentiating drug co … potential reductions in co-payments. We refer to the latter result as the "co-payment exemption paradox." Our competition proxy …

competitor market share influences choices of price and quality at for-profit and nonprofit nursing homes. The measured … significantly different conduct than do incumbents, with entering nonprofits producing higher quality at lower prices than … incumbents of either type, and exiting for-profits producing lower quality …