, I further study how several factors, including competition by a large number of sellers, would affect the equilibrium …

The model of perfect competition is one of the most famous, most important, and most misunderstood concepts in … economics. Rather than aiming to be a full-blown model of real-world competitive markets, the perfect competition model isolates … only feature of market competition, but it plays a central role regarding to its virtues, and understanding the working …

have attempted to substitute regulation for competition, regulating entry and investment (certificate of need laws, health …. Recent years have seen a shift away from regulatory policies and toward competition. Antitrust policy towards health care … these markets. As a consequence, competition and antitrust policy have become prominent issues in health policy. Economic …

have attempted to substitute regulation for competition, regulating entry and investment (certificate of need laws, health …. Recent years have seen a shift away from regulatory policies and toward competition. Antitrust policy towards health care … these markets. As a consequence, competition and antitrust policy have become prominent issues in health policy. Economic …

In this chapter we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The chapter begins with … in ways that might affect the optimality of competition. The chapter then focuses on the main areas in which antitrust …

provide differentiated services and choose initially their network's capacity, totally eliminate competition. Indeed, the only …

I develop a continuous-time model to examine how the interaction between competition and financial constraints affects …

competition and aggregate innovation. We consider a two-stage game with a deterministic Research and Development (R&D) process … outputs simultaneously. We show that the inverted-U relationship between competition and aggregate innovation occurs if … competition is affected by the number of technology followers. However, the presence of more technology leaders decreases …