研討日期 Date	2023年2月13日上午12:10~ 13:50
研討地點 Venue	國立臺灣大學社會科學院710會議室
主講題目 Title of the Paper	Competition and waiting times in hospital markets
作者 Authors of the Paper	Kurt R. Brekke, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume
文獻出處 Journal, vol.(issue), pp	doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2008.02.003
主講人 Speaker	Damiana Simanjuntak
參加人員 Participants	黃鴻、林燕淑、王光正、施姵全、張瑞雲、彭正浩、郭文忠、蘇家叡、許至乙、Suttiwan Suwannajoi、Bui Dang Long、楊雅棠
摘要 Abstract of the Paper	This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that differ in (geographical) location and, potentially, waiting time, and two types of patients: high-benefit patients who choose between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition leads to longer waiting times in equilibrium if the competitive segment is sufficiently large. Given a policy regime of hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs increase waiting times, higher hospital density reduces waiting times, while the effect of a larger competitive segment is ambiguous. We also show that, if the competitive segment is large, hospital competition is socially preferable to monopoly only if the (regulated) treatment price is sufficiently high.