Hotelling framework, this paper analyses the effect of different objectives of the hospitals on quality, profits, and overall …

Hotelling framework, this paper analyses the effect of heterogeneous objectives of the hospitals on quality differentiation … driving force is the single regulated price which induces under-(over-)provision of quality of the more (less) efficient … the private (public) duopoly. This medium price discourages overprovision of quality of the less efficient hospital and …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect … structure, we show that the relationship between competition and quality is generally ambiguous. In contrast to the received …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … ownership type on the production of quality of care and efficiency from a theoretical (Chapter 2) and empirical perspective …

We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i …. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer budgets … increase quality since parts of the expenditures may be covered by the payer. However, softer budgets reduce cost …