The introduction of hospital reimbursement based on diagnosis related groups (DRG) in 2004 has been a conspicuous … attempt to increase hospital efficiency in the German health sector. In this paper changes of hospital efficiency, quantified … of negative spatial spillovers among German hospital performance can be diagnosed. This result is in line with a rise of …

We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … are all under a DRG-based payment system after the reform. For each hospital status, we assess the benefits of local … hospital level to take into account hospital unobserved heterogeneity and censorship in the duration of stays in a flexible way …

Voivodeship Specialist Hospital in December 2020, in which 165 employees from different wards participated. For this purpose, the …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals faced a unique predicament. Hospital care was urgently needed and society took …

through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in …, management and organization. For this, we specify an extended production function relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT … productivity can be sizeable, and they provide evidence that a good part of the total impact, though not a predominant one, goes …