Increasing evidence shows that hospital competition under fixed prices can improve quality and reduce cost. Concerns … remain, however, that competition may undermine socio-economic equity in the utilisation of care. We test this hypothesis in … the context of the pro-competition reforms of the English National Health Service progressively introduced from 2004 to …

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

The health economics literature contains contradictory empirical findings regarding the cost of an empty hospital bed … hospital. We provide a relationship between capacity utilization, productive efficiency, and the cost of empty beds, and then … and excess capacity, with different implications for the cost of empty beds across the hospital groups and their …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital market with regulated prices, considering both the effect … of free patient choice (monopoly versus competition) and increased competition through lower transportation costs …

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

This paper centers around the question of ownership of firms and managerial competition and how these affect managers … affected by both ownership and competition since both ownership structure and competition provide bargaining chips to employees … fierce market competition and no lock-in the allocation of ownership does not play a role (as one might expect), provided …

the effect of competition on firm performance. According to one stream of literature, competition has a high, positive … empirical analysis on a panel of Czech firms shows that the former view is supported if import competition is high; otherwise …

competition, corporate governance and ownership structure on risk reporting practices in annual reports of Egyptian companies … regression analysis is used in evaluating the relationships between competition, corporate governance, ownership structure and … for the variation of risk reporting in corporate annual reports. It is suggested that competition, role duality, board …

The objective of this study is to examine the effect of ownership structure and competition on risk-taking behaviour of … ownership structure. Concentration is used as a measure of competition. Three control variables are also included in the …