Competition Policy for Labour Markets

Competition policy: The challenge of digital markets

Making Health Care Markets Work: Competition Policy for Health Care.

Many studies have examined trends toward increasing consolidation of physician practices and hospitals in the US health care system and the negative effects of decreased competition on the quality of patient care and health care costs.1 Since 2010, there have been 561 hospital mergers,2 and nearly half of hospital markets are highly concentrated.3 Independent physician practice has declined; 33...

Infertility Treatment Markets: The Effects of Competition and Policy

For the 10%-15% of American married couples who experience reproductive problems, in vitro fertilization (IVF) is the leading technologically advanced treatment procedure. Two important issues are at the center of policy debates regarding IVF markets: 1) expanding access to infertility treatment, and 2) how to encourage IVF clinics and patients to minimize the risk of multiple births, which can...

Overlapping Labour Markets

Overlapping labour markets arise when some types of workers do not meet employers with some types of jobs. For example, skilled workers could seek high-skill or low-skill jobs, but low skill workers could be limited to low-skill jobs. The paper derives conditions for equilibrium and efficiency, distinguishes reducible from irreducible overlapping labour markets, and describes distributional imp...

Competition and Competition Policy in Emerging Markets: International and Developmental Dimensions

This paper examines the role of competition policy in emerging markets from a developmental and international perspective. The main issues addressed include the following: • The state of competition and competition policy in developing countries; • The relationship between competition, competition policy and economic development; • The implications of the recent new advances in the theory of in...