With its Leading-Edge Cluster Competition (in German: Spitzencluster-Wettbewerb; LECC), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) is supporting innovation clusters in a nationwide contest for the first time. In three rounds, 15 cluster...

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

Der vorliegende Krankenhaus Rating Report 2007 schließt in wesentlichen Punkten an seinen Vorgänger aus dem vergangenen Jahr an, setzt - dem Prinzip der kontinuierlichen Weiterentwicklung verpflichtet - jedoch erneut auch eigene Akzente. Das Hauptziel des Reports ist wie im letzten Jahr die...

With its Leading-Edge Cluster Competition (in German: Spitzencluster-Wettbewerb; LECC), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) is supporting innovation clusters in a nationwide contest for the first time. In three rounds, 15 cluster...

Huge underinvestment increases the need for private borrowing in the German hospital sector, the access to which is partly determined by the probability of default (PD) of individual hospitals. Using ordinary least squares and quantile regression techniques this paper provides first empirical...

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

Der vorliegende Krankenhaus Rating Report 2007 schließt in wesentlichen Punkten an seinen Vorgänger aus dem vergangenen Jahr an, setzt - dem Prinzip der kontinuierlichen Weiterentwicklung verpflichtet - jedoch erneut auch eigene Akzente. Das Hauptziel des Reports ist wie im letzten Jahr die...