Hospital quality interdependence in a competitive institutional environment: Evidence from Italy

Generation scheduling in a competitive environment

Electric power restructuring offers a major change to the vertically integrated monopoly. The change manifests the main part of engineers’ efforts to reshape the three components of today’s vertically integrated monopoly: generation, distribution and transmission. In a restructured environment, the main tasks of these three components will remain the same as before, however, to comply with ...

Hospital quality and costs: evidence from England

How foreign direct investment promote institutional quality: Evidence from Vietnam

Dang, Duc Anh—How foreign direct investment promote institutional quality: Evidence from Vietnam Using a unique dataset from a provincial competitiveness survey and the rising foreign direct investment (FDI) from joining the World Trade Organization (WTO), I find that variations in economic institutions across the provinces of Vietnam are associated with the flow of foreign investment. To overc...

Competitive Federalism in Institutional Perspective

Institutional public private partnerships for core health services: evidence from Italy

BACKGROUND Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are potential instruments to enable private collaboration in the health sector. Despite theoretical debate, empirical analyses have thus far tended to focus on the contractual or project dimension, overlooking institutional PPPs, i.e., formal legal entities run by proper corporate-governance mechanisms and jointly owned by public and private parties...