We build up a differential game to investigate the interplay between the quality of health care and the presence of an … perfection of the open-loop Nash solution. Moreover, we identify the admissible parameter region wherein price regulation …

evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare … providers supply relatively higher quality levels and position themselves closer to the center. Whether the social planner … offset costly quality competition. …

overcome the resulting inefficiencies. We combine the theory of agency with a model of monopolistic competition to explore … cost-based reimbursement for hospitals; (2) regulation; and (3) managed care. Each regime represents, for its time, a … sensible response to market failure. Each regime has predictable consequences for prices, costs, and quality. We examine the …

minimum quality standards for patient safety, an issue that has become increasingly salient following the Ebola and COVID-19 …, improvements were equally marked throughout the quality distribution, consistent with a simple model of vertical differentiation in … that minimum standards can improve quality across the board without adversely affecting utilization …

damage quality when information is poor. Evidence on whether this fear is well-founded is scarce. We provide evidence using a … research that has relied on indicators of the quality of urgent treatments, we take advantage of the plausible absence of … selection bias in our setting to identify the effect on quality of non-acute hip replacements. Using administrative data on all …

We investigate the quality provision behavior and its implications for the occurrence of collusion in competitive … experiment with a health care market framing where subjects decide on the quality levels for one of three competing hospitals … respectively. We vary whether quality decisions within hospitals are made by individuals or teams. Realized monetary patient …

to high-quality non-integrated hospitals, resulting in plan networks that limit hospital competition. Whereas vertical …

informational role of general practitioners (GPs). In the secondary care market there are two hospitals choosing quality and … improved diagnosing accuracy. Therefore, compulsory gatekeeping may result in excessive quality competition and too much … specialisation, unless the mismatch costs and the diagnosing accuracy are sufficiently high. Second-best price regulation makes …

the cost of public healthcare that everyone pays for. Even if higher quality (i.e. zero waiting time) canbe achieved at no … for public health treatment. Moreover, we studythe interaction between this quality decision and the optimal tax …