Im Wettbewerb stehende Krankenhäuser könnten nicht nur Qualität, sondern auch ihr Spezialisierungsprofil nutzen, um …

pricing turns out to be more favorable, though not perfect. -- yardstick competition ; regulation ; hospital market …In many countries hospital regulation undergoes fundamental change. In reaction to steadily increasing costs … competition for a solution. Yardstick competition, however, ignores quality issues. This paper fills this gap in the literature …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect … of (i) introducing competition (monopoly versus competition) and (ii) increasing competition through lower transportation … structure, we show that the relationship between competition and quality is generally ambiguous. In contrast to the received …