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Hospital Health Care : Cost Reimbursement and Quality Control in a Spatial Model with Asymmetry of Information

Levaggi, Rosella - 2009

The cost for hospital care depends on the quality of the service, on the personal characteristics of the patient, on … hospital care reimbursement systems will be discussed in a context where hospitals can observe patient severity and compete … is used by the provider to get more patients to his hospital. Spatial competition can then be used to curb the cost to …

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Internal Markets for Hospital Care : Cost and Quality Control in a Spatial Competition Model

Levaggi, Rosella - 2005

Internal markets have been created in an attempt to shift power from producers to consumers in a context where consumers have very weak incentives to seek out low-cost producers and have little knowledge about the quality of health care. The idea is that by establishing public agencies to act as...

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Spatial competition for quality in the market for hospital care

Montefiori, Marcello - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 6 (2005) 2, pp. 131-135

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Trade, externalities, and the impact of asymmetric information on trade policy

Gori, Giuseppe Francesco; Lambertini, Luca - 2014

This paper investigates the relationship between trade liberalisation, consumers' environmental awareness and a negative environmental externality in consumption. We adopt an international Hotelling duopoly setup, where firms are located in two asymmetric countries. We find that, if the...

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