Quality competition with profit constraints

Firms in markets such as health care and education are often profit constrained due to regulation or their non-profit status, and they are often viewed as being altruistic towards consumers. We use a spatial competition framework to study incentives for cost containment and quality provision by altr...

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Main Author: Brekke, Kurt R. (author)
Other Authors: Siciliani, Luigi (author), Straume, Odd Rune (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/21191
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/21191