Background In the UK, the National Health Service has various incentivisation schemes in
place to improve the provision of high-quality care. The Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) …

Public policies fostering the freedom of choice of provider in the healthcare sector are
increasingly common in many countries and regions, where policymakers wish to empower …

Patient choice of provider and provider competition have been introduced with the claim that
they would lead to improved quality. For this to occur, certain conditions must be fulfilled on …

Policies aiming to spur quality competition among health care providers are ubiquitous, but
their impact on quality is ex ante ambiguous, and credible empirical evidence is lacking in …

This study contributes to the sparse literature on differences between public and private
primary care practices (PCCs). The purpose was to explore if differences in performance …

This paper studies how altruistic preferences are changed by markets and incentives. We
conduct a laboratory experiment with a within-subject design. Subjects are asked to choose …

We study how competition between physicians affects the provision of medical care. In our
theoretical model, physicians are faced with a heterogeneous patient population, in which …

Although countries have implemented pro-competitive reforms in health care to reduce costs
and improve quality, there is limited evidence on the effect of competition on quality of care …

Quasi-market reforms have been increasingly implemented in tax-funded health care, but
their effects in terms of equity, quality and socioeconomic differentials in quality remain …

Цифровая экономика вносит существенные изменения в организацию бизнеса, в
межфирменные взаимодействия, стратегическое поведение компаний и устройство …