The role of competition in healthcare is much debated. Despite a wealth of international experience in relation to competition, evidence is mixed and contested and the debate about the potential role for competition is often polarised. This paper considers briefly some of the reasons for this, focusing on what is meant by “competition in healthcare” and why it is more valuable to think about th...

This commentary explores some of the issues raised by Gilbert et al.short communication, Morality and Markets in the NHS. The increasing role of market mechanisms and the changing types of healthcare providers together with the use of choice and competition to drive improvements in quality in the National Health Service (NHS), all have important ethical implications. In order for the NHS to con...

In this article, we consider technology leaders (which are innovators) and followers non-innovators) to provide a new theoretical explanation for the well-cited empirical evidence of an inverted-U relationship between competition aggregate innovation. We two-stage game with deterministic Research Development (R&D) process, where first determine their R&D investments simultaneously then ...

We study the consequences of hospital competition for Medicare beneficiaries’ heart attack care from 1985 to 1994. We examine how relatively exogenous determinants of hospital choice such as travel distances influence the competitiveness of hospital markets, and how hospital competition interacts with the influence of managed-care organizations to affect the key determinants of social welfare—e...