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

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …

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

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 …

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

market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …

simultaneously product and labor market imperfections, this paper quantifies industry differences in both types of imperfections … of Hall's econometric framework for estimating price-cost margins by nesting three labor market settings (perfect … market imperfections. Consistent with differences in institutions and in the industrial relations system in the two countries …

Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state …