Die "Ökonomisierung" des Gesundheitswesens und somit auch des Krankenhausmarktes macht sich seit Beginn der neunziger Jahre verstärkt in der Eigentümerstruktur der Krankenhäuser bemerkbar (Neubauer 1999). Sie äußert sich u. a. in einer Verschiebung der Anteile an der Versorgung aller...

This paper uses data on juvenile offenders released from correctional facilities in Florida to explore the effects of facility management type (private for-profit, private nonprofit, public state-operated, and public county-operated) on recidivism outcomes and costs. The data provide detailed...

In many countries, employment services are contracted out to private providers. However, there is little evidence on the contract design as well as on the effects of differential pricing on private provider performance. This paper contributes to the literature by presenting detailed information...

This paper experimentally examines whether looking at other peopleś pricing decisions is a type of heuristic - a decisionmaking rule - that people use even when it is not applicable, as in the case of clearly private value goods. We find evidence that this indeed is the case - an individualś...