integration between insurers and hospitals, we develop a model of bargaining and competition. Integrated firms have incentives to … claims and plans from Chile, where vertically integrated hospitals account for half of all admissions. Our estimates imply …

individual hospitals are buying from only two, or in some instances one seller. Given this backdrop, we develop a theoretical … how decisions are made and how suppliers bargain with hospitals. …

We analyse the relationship between the quality of a GP practice in England and the degree of competition that it faces … obtained from the national GP patient survey). The association between increased competition and higher quality is found for GP … rival GP practices provide a higher quality of care than that provided by GP practices that lack competitors. This higher …

good for policyholders, in a context where competition between health plans can lead to a "death spiral" for the less … the market for health (policyholders and physicians), we are able to find examples in which competition between health …

admissions to Dutch hospitals, we find no evidence that increased exposure to price competition reduces quality measured by …One of the reasons why regulators are hesitant about permitting price competition in healthcare markets is that it may … damage quality when information is poor. Evidence on whether this fear is well-founded is scarce. We provide evidence using a …

hospitals characteristics that determine waiting times? By developing a model of healthcare provision and analysing empirically … that describes the optimal waiting time distribution for capacity constraint hospitals. Secondly, employing duration … analysis, we obtain empirical representations of that distribution across hospitals in the UK from 1997-2005. We observe …

This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price …

This study investigates hospitals' dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price …