Emergency Departments (EDs) are supposed to provide healthcare to patients with acute clinical conditions. Nevertheless almost 80% of total access to EDs is represented by white and green code patients. Looking at triage code classification as a proxy of patients’ severity, it clearly emerges...

Competition in hospital care is often implemented through mixed markets where public and private hospitals compete for patients. The optimality of this market form has long been debated in the literature. In this paper, we investigate the role of soft budget constraint in affecting patient...

Global public goods, differently from what it might be thought, are quite common in the real world. This work suggests that both the governments' struggle against Mafia and the prevention of immigration can be regarded as global public goods. We assume a federation of jurisdictions with two...