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The main features of our work are: (i) developing a dynamic analysis model of the hospitals\u2019 quality improvement and congestion reduction, considering knowledge accumulations in health care markets; (ii) the demand function for medical treatment depends on treatment quality, congestion degree, price, and traveling cost; (iii) each hospital\u2019s instantaneous costs of quality improvement and congestion reduction depend on treatment quality, quality-improving investment, corresponding knowledge accumulation as well as congestion degree, congestion-reducing investment and the corresponding knowledge accumulation; (iv) the hospitals\u2019 dynamic competitions are not only in treatment quality and congestion degree but also in treatment prices. Our results show that (i) there exists a unique saddle-stable steady-state equilibrium under hospital optimum and social optimum; (ii) knowledge accumulation and the complementarity or substitutability affect the hospitals\u2019 decision behavior; (iii) whether the price and the hospitals\u2019 investments in quality improvement and congestion reduction are higher or lower under hospital optimum than that under social optimum depends on the parameter regions of complementarity or substitutability. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1142\/s021919892450018x","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,20]],"date-time":"2024-09-20T04:18:27Z","timestamp":1726805907000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["A Dynamic Game Analysis of Hospitals\u2019 Quality-Improving and Congestion-Reducing with Corresponding Knowledge Accumulations Effects"],"prefix":"10.1142","volume":"27","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0000-1421-7129","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiuzhen","family":"Jiang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai 201620, P. 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