and 2012 using data from 2006 and 2009, respectively. The aim was to provide a sound and reasoned assessment of hospital … privatisation in Germany by presenting and evaluating relevant key ratios relating to the hospital market, differentiated by type of … in hospitals. Lastly, the authors wish in particular to shed light on the hospital reform slated for 2015, including both …

decided to update our first Hospital Rating Report, a joint work published by the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … Wirtschaftsforschung Essen (RWI Essen) and the ADMED Health Care Consultancy. For this purpose we collected 277 annual financial statements … impression of the financial stability of German hospitals. Basically, we would be able to name the hospitals and their ratings …

development over time.We measure financial performance by a hospital-specific yearly probability of default (PD). Using a panel of …This paper considers the role of ownership form for the financial performance of German acute care hospitals and its … hospital data, our models allow for state dependence in the PD as well as unobserved individual heterogeneity. We find that …