Hospital markets are often characterised by price regulation and the existence of different ownership types. Using a … mixed duopolies, this paper shows that in this framework privatisation of the public hospital may increase overall welfare …. This holds if the public hospital is similar to the private hospital or less efficient and competition is low. The main …

help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …

how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure,and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor …

zunehmende Patientenwanderung zwischen den ändern. Ein steigender Anteil von Patienten wählt zur Behandlung ein Krankenhaus …

In this paper, we propose a methodological approach to measure the relationship between hospital costs and health … ensure the available information is exploited. To demonstrate its application, data on mortality following hospital treatment … in hospital costs by 100 to increase the hazard of dying, i.e. mortality, by 0.43%. The negative association between …

responsiveness to changes in demand for hospital services in Germany between 1996 and 2006. With respect to the speed of adaptation … owned hospitals. Thus, the study finds evidence that to some extent the privatization of the hospital sector may be an …