Using the World Management Survey method, we map and analyse management quality in Swedish primary care centres. On … average, private providers have higher management quality than public ones. We also find that centres with a high overall … social deprivation among enrolled patients tend to have higher management quality. Regarding quality of care, we find that …

quality attributes. Because there is no compelling argument for a multiplicativity in quality, monopolists tend to distort … durability, even with constant marginal costs. Distortions in durability and other quality aspects are aligned exactly when the … marginal cost of quality do not increase too much with durability. …

quality innovations at low costs, whereas investment outlays have to be financed by external capital. We show that the scope … frictions intensify quality-based (cost-based) sorting of firms if the scope for vertical product differentiation is high (low …