BACKGROUND Although concentrating adult congenital heart disease services at high-volume centers has been widely advocated, the potential beneficial effects of competition and patient choice have received relatively little attention. We aimed to assess the degree of patient choice and competition between adult congenital heart disease units and to investigate whether competition indices correla...

INTRODUCTION Hospitals are studying the focused factory concept and attempting to increase their power in a competitive industry by becoming more specialized. METHODOLOGY This study uses the information theory index (ITI) and the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) to analyze the extent of specialization by Korean hospitals that receive national health insurance reimbursements. Hierarchical regr...

Market power refers to conditions where the providers of a service can consistently charge prices above those that would be established by a competitive market. There are many well known definitions of market power, including indices intended to quantify the degree of market concentration of energy supplies. Unfortunately, market power considerations within electric power markets require the co...

this paper using generalized roeger's model calculated the lerner index for iranian active industries in 4-digit isic codes during the period 1995-2007. the findings indicate that the lerner index has been between 8 to 16 percent in 38 industries among 131 ones. the index also in different industries shows that more than 50 percent of iranian industries have monopolistic power such that th...

Modern economic growth is viewed through the prism of paradigm sustainable development. This work presents reasons for difficulties transition to development an economy with a high share extractive industry and shows that effective implementation Sustainable Development Goals it necessary change model reducing role this industry. The analysis contribution gross regional product Russia’s regions...

The geographical location of Ukraine provides a multitude possibilities for successful investment activity. There are rich natural resources, fertile soil and qualified low-cost labour force. On the other hand, investors have to deal with historical ties Soviet Union, corruption, and political instability exacerbated by occupation part territory Russia. This paper deals possibility identifyi...

background: this study aimed to investigate dentists’ supply and practice patterns following the implementation of the global budget system in taiwan. materials and methods: data of reimbursement claims, municipal socioeconomic status and dental manpower were collected from the national health insurance administration, the ministry of internal affair, and the ministry of health and welfare, res...

This paper challenges recent research (Evans, 2008) reporting that the concentration of cited scientific literature increases with the online availability of articles and journals. Using Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, the present paper analyses changes in the concentration of citations received (twoand five-year citation windows) by papers published between 1900 and 2005. Three measures of co...