larger price increases than mergerrelated exits. Within the merger category, our analysis reveals significant price increases … on all affected routes immediately after the exit events. In the medium and long-run, however, realized merger …

marktverschließenden Wirkungen der dualistischen Krankenhausfinanzierung, gehen auf die besondere Problematik von Krankenhäusern in der …The increasing number of hospital mergers over the last few years has lead to some debate over the form and degree of … paper analyses regionalism and hospital competition, highlighting several aspects: We shed light on the market …

Most retrospective merger studies resort to the treatment effect approach, comparing the price dynamics in a treatment … thus that seemingly distant entities may be affected through indirect channels. An illustration based on a merger in the …

a steep increase in prices after price controls were lifted in 2006. The boycott led to an immediate decline in prices … low prices, would have been 30% higher but for the boycott, (ii) own price elasticities and especially cross price … other products, of new price controls, and of possibly class action law suits. …

's ability to rationalize production is even more limited if costs are private information to firms. Merger in such markets … generate an efficiency gain associated with the pooling of information. Not only may costs be reduced, the price level and … price variability may also decline and consumers may thus gain. …

Foreign direct investment - the major driving force of globalization - is increasingly dominated by merger and …

Berücksichtigung des neuen DRGEntgeltsystems auf Arbeitsbedingungen und Versorgungsqualität im Krankenhaus. Zugrunde liegen Fallstudien … Arbeitsbedingungen der Beschäftigten im Krankenhaus und die Qualität der Patientenversorgung hat, wird im Projekt Wandel von Medizin und … what extent changes in hospital funding have invoked shifts in attitude and behaviour on the part of service providers in …

Durch verschiedene Änderungen der Krankenhausfinanzierung sind Krankenhäuser seit 1993 einem verstärkten …