angesichts der enormen Dynamik und Herausforderungen einer nahezu alles beherrschenden Pandemie im Gesundheitswesen deutlich. Es …

This paper investigates how changes in hospital choice sets affect levels of patient demand for elective hospital care …. Impacts on demand are estimated using variation in distance to these private hospitals, within regions where supply … constraints are fixed. We find that the reforms increased demand for publicly-funded procedures. For public hospitals, volumes …