In recent years, several countries have introduced non-monetary performance incentives for health care providers to … improve the quality of medical care. Evidence on the effect of non-monetary feedback incentives, predominantly in the form of … public quality reporting, on the quality of medical care is, however, ambiguous. This is often because empirical research to …

research has come to no consensus on the relationship between hospital market competition and quality. This article extends … relationship between hospital competition and quality investment. Specifically, we look at how the quality of competitors, measured … measures of hospital-quality investment. We find the quality of competitors leads, in some cases, to an increase in quality …