institutional functions toward the interaction between function and dysfunction, and their substitutability in the relation … the interplay of the function and dysfunction embedded in its institutional environment. …

Using the World Management Survey method, we map and analyse management quality in Swedish primary care centres. On … average, private providers have higher management quality than public ones. We also find that centres with a high overall … social deprivation among enrolled patients tend to have higher management quality. Regarding quality of care, we find that …

management quality, regulatory quality, auditing quality, culture, and ethics of a country. This result has several policy …

important ramifications for the use and quality of paid childcare. Even if one is concerned primarily with the quantity aspect …, the quality dimension cannot be ignored. This paper provides an exposition of the potential biases in estimates of price … elasticities with respect to quantity that do not allow for quality variation or for the possibility of non-linear pricing …

This papers studies the effects on service quality and consumer surplus of a minimum price which is fixed by a … maximize consumer surplus only if consumers demand the highest possible average quality. If consumers demand services of lesser … quality, the association?s price will be too high if measured by consumer surplus. Moreover we show that a de-regulated market …