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 …

Recent research indicates that the majority of listed firms in Germany (and also in many other countries around the … listed companies. This article introduces the concept of an ownership-based style index of listed firms in Germany, the …

and 2010 based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. We find that changes in reimbursement prices do not affect … prices for hospitals on multiple dimensions of hospital quality, including mortality outcomes, surgical complications … Deutschland, nutzen wir eine exogene Variation der Krankenhausvergütung zwischen den Jahren 2006 und 2010. Wir finden, dass …

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

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 …