We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … drops to the minimum level in steady state, implying that quality competition is e¤ectively eliminated. In this case, static … models tend to exaggerate the positive effect of competition on quality. Our results can explain the mixed empirical evidence …

We analyse the relationship between the quality of a GP practice in England and the degree of competition that it faces … obtained from the national GP patient survey). The association between increased competition and higher quality is found for GP … rival GP practices provide a higher quality of care than that provided by GP practices that lack competitors. This higher …

Provider competition is a currently popular healthcare reform model. A necessary condition for greater competition to … improve quality is that providers will face higher demand if they improve their quality. In this paper we test this crucial … assumption in an important part of the health care market by examining whether quality affects the choice of family doctor. We …

right to a wider choice of hospital. For AMI and hip fracture, hospitals with more rivals had higher mortality at the …

Provider competition is a currently popular healthcare reform model. A necessary condition for greater competition to … 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 …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital market with regulated prices, considering both the effect … of free patient choice (monopoly versus competition) and increased competition through lower transportation costs … and quality, we show - in both cases - that the effect is generally ambiguous. In contrast to the received theoretical …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … minimum level in steady state, implying that quality competition is effectively eliminated. In this case, static models tend … to exaggerate the positive effect of competition on quality. Our results can explain the mixed empirical evidence on …

A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … observations, hospitals of Saxony have higher efficiency scores than their Swiss counterparts. …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … performance in the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-pro t ownership is favorable to efficiency for big hospitals … which were introduced in 2008 increase spending of hospitals. Only big hospitals proved to take some cost-saving measures as …