We study how competition between physicians affects the provision of medical care. In our theoretical model physicians … in a controlled laboratory experiment. In line with the model, we observe that competition significantly improves patient … physician, competition even decreases the patient benefit compared to a situation without competition. This decrease is in …

Alongside the consideration of price, competition authorities recognize that quality can be as, if not more, important … in some markets. But as competition authorities also recognize, identifying the dimensions of competition important to … challenges. To circumvent these challenges, competition authorities rely on several heuristics when assessing a merger's, cartel …

Nominally, competition policy is just as concerned with quality as it is with prices. But in practice, courts and … competition authorities rarely analyze quality effects as rigorously as they analyze price effects. We begin this paper by … changes in the level of competition affect quality, examining that issue from the perspectives of both microeconomic theory …