Institutional types and institutional change in healthcare ecosystems

Institutional change in economic geography

This paper develops a rigorous concept of institutions to investigate the interrelationships between institutional and economic change from the perspective of economic geography. We view institutions neither as behavioural regularities nor as organisations or rules, but conceive institutions as stabilisations of mutual expectations and correlated interaction. The paper discusses how economic in...

International Trade and Institutional Change ∗

This paper analyzes the impact of international trade on the quality of institutions, such as contract enforcement, property rights, or investor protection. It presents a model in which institutional differences play two roles: they create rents for some parties within the economy, and they are a source of comparative advantage in trade. Institutional quality is determined as an equilibrium of ...

Special article Institutional resilience in healthcare systems

Introduction A recent report for the President of the United States described the impact of preventable medical errors as a “national problem of epidemic proportions”. Similar concerns have been echoed in the report of an expert group chaired by the Chief Medical OYcer. In this report it was estimated that 400 people in the UK die or are seriously injured each year in adverse events involving m...

Personalisation - An Emergent Institutional Logic in Healthcare?

This commentary on the recent think piece by Mannion and Exworthy reviews their core arguments, highlighting their suggestion that recent forces for personalization have emerged which may counterbalance the strong standardization wave which has been evident in many healthcare settings and systems over the last two decades. These forces for personalization can take very different forms. The comm...

Endogenous Institutional Change and Capitalism in China