consider competition in health insurance markets and physician services markets. We conclude by considering vertical restraints …

consider competition in health insurance markets and physician services markets. We conclude by considering vertical restraints …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment … competition leads to longer waiting times in equilibrium if the competitive segment is sufficiently large. Given a policy regime …

empirical findings, our model implies that firms in the competitive market reach higher productivity and employ less workers … competition between private firms for the best motivated workers leads to higher wage cost than under the public monopsony …

products’ attractiveness and endogenous competition. The model is motivated by two novel stylized facts using Danish … feature the toughest competition. Depending on the strength of competition, two sorting patterns are possible: one in which … quantifying our model, we find that product-specific differences in attractiveness and competition explain a quarter of the …

-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the … toughness of competition in cities? The short answers are: no; yes; and it depends. …