New empirical evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in the altruism of healthcare providers. Spurred by this evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare providers supply relatively higher quality levels and...

Many health economists demand more competition in the health care system. They focus on the competition between sickness funds for insured and the competition between health care providers for contracts with sickness funds. But they neglect the competition between health care providers for...

Chapter 1: Service Design within a Multiplicity Logics in Healthcare -- Chapter 2: Service design for hybrid market constellations in healthcare - From VUCA 2 VUCAR -- Chapter 3: Towards a conceptual framework of hybrid strategies in healthcare: Co-alignment of market and non-market activities...

Part I - Policies, Governance and Strategies -- Chapter 1. COMMUNICATION STRATEGY IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS DURING COVID-19 CRISIS: INSIGHTS FROM THE ITALIAN CONTEXT -- Chapter 2. Rethinking healthcare organizations in the era of Covid-19: Lessons from the pandemic -- Chapter 3. ITALIAN HEALTH...

Health care financing and funding are usually analyzed in isolation. This paper combines the corresponding strands of the literature and thereby advances our understanding of the important interaction between them. We investigate the impact of three modes of health care financing, namely,...

OECD countries face the multiple challenges of rapidly ageing societies with the associated rise in chronic diseases and the ever-present threat from new or evolving communicable diseases. This is within the context of seeking better value for money from the health sector. While a growing body...