2. Hospital competition

Quality competition

Giuseppe Moscelli, Hugh Gravelle, Luigi Siciliani, Hospital competition and quality for non-emergency patients in the English NHS, Rand Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

David Bardey and Luigi Siciliani, Nursing Homes’ Competition and Distributional Implications when the Market is Two-Sided, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 30(2), 472-500.

Luis Sa, Odd Rune Straume, Luigi Siciliani, 2019. Dynamic Hospital Competition under Rationing by Waiting Times, Journal of Health Economics, 66, 260-282.

Francesco Longo, Luigi Siciliani, Hugh Gravelle, Giuseppe Moscelli, 2019. Does Hospital Competition Improve Efficiency? The effect of the Patient Choice Reform in England, Health Economics, 28, 610-640.

Odd Rune Straume, Luigi Siciliani, 2019, Competition and Equity in Health Care Markets, Journal of Health Economics, 64, 1-14.

Giuseppe Moscelli, Hugh Gravelle, Luigi Siciliani, Rita Santos, 2018, Heterogeneous effects of patient choice and hospital competition on mortality, Social Science and Medicine, 216, 50-58.

Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume, 2018, Can competition reduce quality? Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 174(3), 421-447.

Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, Hospital Competition with Soft Budgets, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015. Volume 117, Issue 3, Pages 1019–1048.

Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, 2012, Quality competition with profit constraints, Journal of Economic Behaviour &Organization, 84, 642-659.

Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, 2011, Hospital competition and quality with regulated prices, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 113, Issue 2, pages 444-469.

Patient's choice

Nils Gutacker, Luigi Siciliani, Giuseppe Moscelli, Hugh Gravelle, Choice of hospital: which type of quality matters? Journal of Health Economics, Volume 50, December 2016, Pages 230-246.

Giuseppe Moscelli, Luigi Siciliani, Nils Gutacker, Hugh Gravelle, Location, quality and choice of hospital: evidence from England 2002-2013. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2016. Volume 60, pages 112-124.

Policy

Luigi Siciliani, Martin Chalkley and Hugh Gravelle, 2017. Policies towards hospital and GP competition in five European countries, Health Policy, Volume 121, pages 103-110.

Mergers

Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, 2017. Hospital Mergers with Regulated Prices, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 119(3), Pages 597–627.

Differential games

Kurt Brekke, Roberto Cellini, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume, 2017, Differential Games in Health Care Markets: Models of Quality Competition with Fixed Prices, Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games, forthcoming.

Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume and Roberto Cellini, 2013, Quality competition with motivated providers and sluggish demand, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 37, 2041-2061.

Kurt Brekke, Roberto Cellini, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, 2012, Competition and quality in regulated markets with sluggish demand, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Volume 21, Issue 1 (Spring), pages: 131–178.

Kurt Brekke, Roberto Cellini, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, 2010, Competition and quality in regulated markets: a differential-game approach, Journal of Health Economics, Volume 29, Issue 4, pages 508-523.

Spatial econometrics

Francesco Longo, Luigi Siciliani, Hugh Gravelle, Rita Santos, Do Hospitals Respond to Rivals’ Quality and Efficiency? A Spatial Panel Econometric Analysis, Health Economics, Volume 26(S2), Pages 38–62.

Hugh Gravelle, Rita Santos, Luigi Siciliani. Does a hospital's quality depend on the quality of other hospitals? A spatial econometrics approach, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014, Volume 49, pages 203-216.

Competition across countries or regions

Kurt Brekke, Rosella Levaggi, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume Patient Mobility and Health Care Quality when Regions and Patients Differ in Income, Journal of Health Economics, 2016, Volume 50, Pages 372-387.

Kurt Brekke, Rosella Levaggi, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume, 2014, Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 105, September 2014, Pages 140-157

Reviews

Luigi Siciliani, 2014, Empirical market models, in Culyer, T. Elsevier On-line Encyclopedia of Health Economics (Section: Health Econometrics; Section Editor: John Mullahy, Anirban Basu); Pages 277-281.

Kurt Brekke, Hugh Gravelle, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, 2014, Patient Choice, Mobility and Competition Among Health Care Providers, Chapter 1, pages 1-26, in R. Levaggi and M. Montefiori (eds.), Health Care Provision and Patient Mobility, Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy, 12, DOI: 10.1007/978-88-470-5480-6_1, Springer-Verlag.