physiotherapy instead of increasing productivity. The result is sensible because comparable quality information is not published to … health care system is to encourage providers to keep costs down without skimping on quality. The purpose of this paper is to … analyse the effect of price regulation and free choice on quality in physiotherapy organised by the Social Insurance …

quality in local markets for care homes for older people in England. We extend the existing literature in: (i) considering … supply capacity as a market outcome alongside price and quality; (ii) taking account of the chain structure of care home … concentration. There is no significant evidence that conditions favouring high market concentration affect average care home quality. …

The design of incentive schemes that improve quality of care is a central issue for the healthcare sector. Nowadays we … contribute to improve quality of care, even when they are not based on the ex-post verification of performances. …

We build up a differential game to investigate the interplay between the quality of health care and the presence of an …

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 examine how public sector third-party purchasers and hospitals negotiate quality targets when a fixed proportion of … hospital revenue is required to be linked to quality. We develop a bargaining model linking the number of quality targets to …/11, we find that the number of quality targets is determined by the purchaser's population health and its budget, the …

a Vickrey-Salop model of GP price and quality competition and test its predictions using a dataset with individual GP …

improve quality is that providers will face higher demand if they improve their quality. We test this crucial assumption in an … family doctor practices. We find that patients do respond to quality: a one standard deviation increase in a publicly … available measure of clinical quality would increase the number of patients a practice would attract by around 15%. …

General Practitioners (GP) have limited means to compete. As quality is hard to observe by patients, GPs have … incentives to signal quality by using instruments patients perceive as quality. …

We present a model of optimal contracting between a purchaser and a provider of health services when quality has two … dimensions. We assume that one dimension of quality is contractible (dimension 1) and one dimension is not contractible … quality 1 increases or decreases the marginal cost and marginal bene?t of quality 2 (i.e. substitutability or complementarity …