This paper investigates the relationship between trade liberalisation, consumers' environmental awareness and a negative environmental externality in consumption. We adopt an international Hotelling duopoly setup, where firms are located in two asymmetric countries. We find that, if the...

The cost for hospital care depends on the quality of the service, on the personal characteristics of the patient, on the effort of the medical staff, and information asymmetry. In this article the cost minimising properties of alternative hospital care reimbursement systems will be discussed in...