, integral protection of the grape harvest, creating plantations - parent of clone of a high quality EU countries such as France …

We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in … knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices and some know …-inefficiency of the price/quality offers. But, better price/quality combinations are signalled with lower prices in one type and with …

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 …

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 …

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 …

) 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 …

Many health care systems aim to enhance hospital quality by encouraging competition. However, evidence on the … relationship between quality and competition is inconclusive. My contribution to this literature is two-fold. Analyzing the … relationship between competition and quality for the German hospital market can give valuable insights about the nature of the …

level of quality of services, and an offer that should satisfy the demands of the modern tourist. Dynamic development and …

hotel industry. About that is very remarkable the improvement of the working processes, i.e. the quality of the service, but … greater improvement of the services quality. …