https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00014329https://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dbt_derivate_00018844/Diskussionspapier_Nr_66.pdfhttps://www.db-thueringen.de/rsc/thumbnail/dbt_mods_00014329.png Spatial competition between health care providers effects of standardization 3512 Kuchinke Björn A. Dr. rer. pol. Kuchinke, Björn A. aut Author 122371445 6079 Zerth Jürgen Dr. Zerth, Jürgen aut Author 123023041 9104 Wiese Nadine Dipl.-Volksw. Wiese, Nadine aut Author 1026497132 2009-11-03 2009-11-03 2009-10-23 Ilmenau en book In the international health care literature there is a broaddiscussion on impacts of competition in health care markets. But aspects of standardization in regional health care markets with no price competition received comparatively little attention. We use a typical Hotelling-framework (reference case) to analyze a regional health care market with two health care providers competing in (vertical) quality after the scope of medical treatment is set (horizontal quality). We conclude, that in the reference case both health care provider will use vertical quality to separate from each other. In the next step (standardization case) we introduce one health care provider to be the standard leader in vertical quality. In the standardization case a more homogeneous supply can be expected. But, there is a higher possibility that the standard follower has to leave the regional health care market. book his Host institution 330 http://uri.gbv.de/document/gvk:ppn:612060411 0949-3859 text 66 Diskussionspapier Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers Diskussionspapiere des Instituts für Volkswirtschaftslehre Technische Universität Ilmenau. Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre pbl Publisher 2153644-2 2006-02-08 2011-11-09 series 2006-02-08 Ilmenau de his Host institution 330 text 0949-3859 http://uri.gbv.de/document/gvk:ppn:393387178 2158973-2 26 Seiten dbt_mods_00014329