Effects of ownership on hospital efficiency in Germany
Oliver Tiemann; Jonas Schreyögg
The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1,046) of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals between 2002 and 2006. This was followed by a second-step truncated linear regression model with bootstrapped DEA efficiency scores as dependent variable. The results show that public hospitals performed significantly better than their private for-profit and non-profit counterparts. In addition, we found a significant positive association between hospital size and efficiency, and that competitive pressure had a significant negative impact on hospital efficiency.
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2009
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Authors: | Tiemann, Oliver ; Schreyögg, Jonas |
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Business research : BuR ; official open access journal of VHB, Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. - Göttingen : VHB, ISSN 1866-8658, ZDB-ID 2426376X. - Vol. 2.2009, 2, p. 115-145
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