In this study, we consider the role of a publicly owned platform and programme quality in the free-to-air broadcasting … industry. We compare the equilibrium levels of advertising under private and mixed duopoly competition, and show that the … connection between programme quality and advertising incentives is drastically different in each scenario. We also consider the …

suggestive evidence that quality greatly matters for the impacts at the child level, but not at the mother level. …

Ample evidence is available for the effect of competition on educational quality as only a few countries allow large … scale competition. In the Netherlands free parental choice is present since the beginning of the 20th century, which can be … between competition and educational outcomes in secondary education, but that it is negative and small. This effect is larger …

of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with …In this research we will focus on three topics which we think are particularly relevant for hospital competition: i …) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production …