for firms in financial distress. Regarding market discipline, productivity grows faster when competition on product …

Approximately one in every thousand hospital patients dies because of preventable adverse events. Empirical findings …

role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held …

. This holds if the public hospital is similar to the private hospital or less efficient and competition is low. The main … hospital compared to the first-best. However, if the public hospital is sufficiently more efficient and competition is fierce …Hospital markets are often characterised by price regulation and the existence of different ownership types. Using a …

multimarket contact generates mutual forbearance in frequency competition, finding no evidence for such an effect. …

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

Betrachtung zeigt aber, dass gleichzeitig auch die Dezentralisierung bestimmter Kompetenzen über mehr Wettbewerb zu besseren …