Decision making in quasi-markets: A pedagogic analysis

Quasi-market and cost-containment in Beveridge systems: The Lombardy model of Italy

“…Many authors suggest that their use can involve some distortions, such as cream-skimming, cherry picking, voluntary up-coding and skimping [1,[13][14][15][16]26]. These phenomena, as well as the bargaining on volume and typology of access, require a strong regulatory function on hospital activity, which in some cases is performed by ad hoc independent Authorities, the problem being then related to high transaction costs.…”

Regulation Strategies for the Provision of Paternalistic Goods

“…Vertical integration, where the regulator was also the sole provider of the service, has been abandoned in favour of some form of competition in order to improve efficiency (Enthoven ; Jones and Cullis ). The latter was first seen as an instrument to improve quality and value for money, but in the recent past several doubts are arising from both a theoretical and an empirical point of view, especially in the provision of hospital care (Gaynor and Town ; Goddard ).…”

La provisión de servicios sanitarios en el ámbito público: una revisión crítica en torno al concepto de cuasimercado

“…La provisión efectiva, en cambio, puede ser realizada tanto por una entidad privada, claramente separada de la acción pública, como por una entidad pública distinta del ente público encargado de la función de compra. Esta estructura de relaciones es denominada por diversos autores, desde una perspectiva de análisis económico, como cuasimercado o mercado interno (Barlett, 1991;Le Grand, 1991;Maynard, 1991;Barlett y Le Grand, 1993;Propper, 1993;Chalkley y Malcomson, 1996a, 1996bJenkinson y Mayer, 1996;Jones y Cullis, 1996;Deakin y Michie, 1997;Kitchener, 1998;Le Grand et alii, 1998).…”