productivity and the regulator receives a signal about quality. It is shown that managerial effort and expenditures on quality are … positively correlated in the optimal contract. The higher is firm productivity the more should the firm spend on quality … quality. Under product market competition expenditures on quality should be increasing in the firm's own productivity 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 …

We build up a differential game to investigate the interplay between the quality of health care and the presence of an …

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 …