In the international health care literature there is a broad discussion on impacts of competition in health care markets. But aspects of standardization in regional health care markets with no price competition received comparatively little attention. We use a typical Hotelling-framework...

German media repeatedly discuss the thesis, that residents in East Germany are dissatisfied with their life situation in comparison to those in West Germany. Therefore East Germans tend to moan. One intention of this essay is to answer the question, whether the East Germans are in fact...

Die Rahmenbedingungen auf deutschen Krankenhausmärkten haben sich mit den neueren Gesetzesänderungen erheblich gewandelt. Insbesondere das neue fallpauschalengestützte Entgeltsystem bestimmt das Handeln der Krankenhäuser bei gleichzeitig vorgegebenen Budgets. Durch diese Maßnahmen soll nach...