right to a wider choice of hospital. For AMI and hip fracture, hospitals with more rivals had higher mortality at the …

determine whether a hospital will have higher quality when its rivals have higher quality. We then apply spatial econometric …We examine whether a hospitals quality is affected by the quality provided by other hospitals in the same market. We … methods to a sample of English hospitals in 2009-10 and a set of 16 quality measures including mortality rates, readmission …

results suggest that hospital competition in markets with fixed prices can lead to improvements in clinical quality. …This paper examines whether or not hospital competition in a market with fixed reimbursement prices can prompt … improvements in clinical quality. In January 2006, the British Government introduced a major extension of their market …

In this article, we will study the question of cinematographic quality by analyzing the conditions of the exploitation …

oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers … know both the prices and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices and some know neither. We show that two … types of signalling equilibria are possible. Both are characterised by dispersion and Pareto-inefficiency of the price/quality …

improve quality is that providers will face higher demand if they improve their quality. We test this crucial assumption in an … family doctor practices. We find that patients do respond to quality: a one standard deviation increase in a publicly … available measure of clinical quality would increase the number of patients a practice would attract by around 15%. …

Development of the importance of quality has been produced by a series of economic facts , among which we can name … workforce in manufacturing based organisations to produce increased productivity and add new impetuous to total quality efforts … equipment types and conditions. In Romania, the implementation of assurance quality systems began in 1980 . The implementation …