The premium rates paid for statutory health insurance in Germany play a key role in the competition among health care …

Competing hospitals may not only use quality of service to attract patients but also their specialization profile … and (ii) preference for a good match between patients' needs and hospitals' specialization profile. Moreover, we derive …Im Wettbewerb stehende Krankenhäuser könnten nicht nur Qualität, sondern auch ihr Spezialisierungsprofil nutzen, um …

variation in the scope for competition. Using rich administrative data covering the universe of NHS hospital admissions from …We study the impact of exposing hospitals in a National Health Service (NHS) to non-price competition by exploiting a … length of stay than hospitals in less competitive areas. These results indicate that competition improves patient health …

effects of competition for active patients as well as the negative effects of competition for passive patients become more … pronounced. Our results imply that competition can not only improve but also worsen patient outcome and that patients …We study how competition between physicians affects the provision of medical care. In our theoretical model physicians …

This paper compares the welfare effects of three ways in which health care can be organized: no competition (NC …), competition for the market (CfM) and competition on the market (CoM) where the payer offers the optimal contract to providers in … whether patients react to decentralized information on quality differences between providers and whether payer's and patients …

This paper compares the welfare effects of three ways in which health care can be organized: no competition (NC …), competition for the market (CfM) and competition on the market (CoM) where the payer offers the optimal contract to providers in … whether patients react to decentralized information on quality differences between providers and whether payer’s and patients …