We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect … structure, we show that the relationship between competition and quality is generally ambiguous. In contrast to the received … of (i) introducing competition (monopoly versus competition) and (ii) increasing competition through lower transportation …

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 …

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. …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition …

admissions to Dutch hospitals, we find no evidence that increased exposure to price competition reduces quality measured by …One of the reasons why regulators are hesitant about permitting price competition in healthcare markets is that it may … damage quality when information is poor. Evidence on whether this fear is well-founded is scarce. We provide evidence using a …

Policies aimed to spur quality competition among health care providers are ubiquitous, but their impact on quality is … ex ante ambiguous. This study contributes to the sparse empirical literature on primary care quality by examining the … heterogeneous impact of recent competition enhancing reforms in Sweden. The reforms led to substantially more entry of new providers …

A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … observations, hospitals of Saxony have higher efficiency scores than their Swiss counterparts. …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … performance in the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-pro t ownership is favorable to efficiency for big hospitals … which were introduced in 2008 increase spending of hospitals. Only big hospitals proved to take some cost-saving measures as …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001-2008 using Stochastic …. Inefficiency decreases with less than 10,000 patients treated a year, larger population, and more hospitals in the region. …