increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. Uniquely, this reform changed the …

emergency cases that do not all require hospital care. Many countries have responded by introducing alternative facilities that … area of a hospital reduces hospital outpatient procedures and admissions and that this is associated with improved hospital … cases going to hospital but rather from hospital resources being re-focused. In a significant departure from related …

We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … are all under a DRG-based payment system after the reform. For each hospital status, we assess the benefits of local … hospital level to take into account hospital unobserved heterogeneity and censorship in the duration of stays in a flexible way …

role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held …

This paper studies the short-term impact of public smoking bans on hospitalizations in Germany. It exploits the … in preventing 1.9 hospital admissions (-2.1%) due to cardiovascular diseases per day, per 1 million population. We also …

absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and subjective health indicators. We also add to the … reform reduced the average number of days spent in hospital by almost half a day, but we cannot find robust evidence for …

hospitalizations during the years 2007-2011 in Germany in order to evaluate the short-term impact of this policy on alcohol …

introduction of new Low Emission Zones across cities in Germany. We use detailed hospitalization data combined with geo …

the hospital level. To identify a causal effect, I develop a unique identification strategy where I exploit hospitals …' exposure to snowfall. A particularity of the reform led to exogenous treatment price shocks at hospital level in response to …