Policymakers are increasingly designing policies that encourage patient choice and
therefore mobility across providers. Since prices are regulated (fixed) in most countries …

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

Through time, spatial competition has become the natural environment for studying a
number of problems, ranging from product differentiation to mail order versus traditional …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices,
considering the effect of both introducing competition (monopoly versus competition) and …

This paper applies latent‐class multinomial logit models to the choice of hospital for cataract
operations in the UK NHS. We concentrate on the effects of travel time and waiting time and …

We investigate the effect on the quality of three high‐volume non‐emergency treatments of a
reform that relaxed restrictions on patient choice of hospital. We employ a quasi difference …

We examine the effect of a hospital's objective (ie, non‐profit vs. for‐profit) in hospital
markets for elective care. Using game‐theoretic analysis and queueing models to capture …

Despite its efficiency in reducing the impact of pandemics (eg, the COVID-19), whether to
introduce telemedicine as an additional way to serve chronically ill patients remains …

We study the operational implications from competition in the provision of healthcare
services, in the context of national public healthcare systems in Europe. Specifically, we …

Assessing access to healthcare for an entire healthcare system involves accounting for
demand, supply, and geographic variation. In order to capture the interaction between …