urban-rural gap in public infrastructure. Leftwing governments relocate hospital beds from rural regions. We propose that … leftwing governments do so to gratify their more urban constituencies. In turn, spatial inequalities in hospital infrastructure …

The positive role of transformational leadership on productivity and mental well-being has long been established …. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of crisis which are characterized by high levels of …' leadership styles on employees' performance, work style, and mental well-being in times of crisis. Using longitudinal …

emergency hospital admissions, and mortality in the two countries, both at the national and at the regional level. We then …

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the …

, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform …

We develop a dynamic model of hospital competition where (i) waiting times increase if demand exceeds supply; (ii …) patients choose a hospital based in part on waiting times; and (iii) hospitals incur waiting time penalties. We show that … to higher waiting times. These results are robust to different game-theoretic solution concepts, designs of the hospital …