Hotelling framework, this paper analyses the effect of different objectives of the hospitals on quality, profits, and overall …

Hotelling framework, this paper analyses the effect of heterogeneous objectives of the hospitals on quality differentiation … driving force is the single regulated price which induces under-(over-)provision of quality of the more (less) efficient … the private (public) duopoly. This medium price discourages overprovision of quality of the less efficient hospital and …

Ample evidence is available for the effect of competition on educational quality as only a few countries allow large …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … the open-loop solution (providers choose the optimal quality investment plan based on demand at the initial period) and … the feedback closed-loop solution (providers observe demand in each period and choose quality in response to current …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … ownership type on the production of quality of care and efficiency from a theoretical (Chapter 2) and empirical perspective …

indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces costs without hurting quality. This is clearly the case for …

market where buyers only observe the average quality supplied. The model is a generalization of the standard Cournot duopoly …, which corresponds to the special case where the two qualities are equal. When the quality differential is large, the firms …