In this paper we focus on the implications of consumer heterogeneity for whether competition will improve outcomes in … health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an … minority group by not introducing competition. Alternatively, if the minority group is favoured by the providers under monopoly …

in the industry's productivity. Second, increased competition, due to the expansion of minimills, drove a substantial …

positive impact on the quality of the service provided. We also assess the impact of competition from an alternative form of … technology (cable) which is not subject to regulation, and what we discover is that inter-platform competition has a positive …

This paper analyzes the impact of labor market competition and skill-biased technical change on the structure of … compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most … perfect competition, the resulting efficiency loss can be larger than that imposed by a single firm or principal, who distorts …

This paper compares the welfare effects of three ways in which health care can be organized: no competition (NC …), competition for the market (CfM) and competition on the market (CoM) where the payer offers the optimal contract to providers in …

selection with heterogeneous buyers and sellers consistent with these findings in which tougher competition induces a better … tougher competition leads to higher productivity and higher welfare and hints at an additional source of gains from trade as … long as freer trade fosters competition. …