the OECD. How do the hospital admission patterns that generate waiting lists affect different patients? What are the … how constrained the hospital is, explains differences in scale. Changes in benefits and costs structures of healthcare …

We develop a dynamic model of hospital competition where (i) waiting times increase if demand exceeds supply; (ii …) patients choose a hospital based in part on waiting times; and (iii) hospitals incur waiting time penalties. We show that … to higher waiting times. These results are robust to different game-theoretic solution concepts, designs of the hospital …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect …