A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … observations, hospitals of Saxony have higher efficiency scores than their Swiss counterparts. …

We estimate a bargaining model of competition between hospitals and managed care organizations (MCOs) and use the … hospitals. We show that increasing patient coinsurance tenfold would reduce prices by 16%. We find that a proposed hospital …

period 1993 to 2013. State governments decide on hospital capacity planning (number of hospitals, departments and beds …

hospitals characteristics that determine waiting times? By developing a model of healthcare provision and analysing empirically … that describes the optimal waiting time distribution for capacity constraint hospitals. Secondly, employing duration … analysis, we obtain empirical representations of that distribution across hospitals in the UK from 1997-2005. We observe …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment …

costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number of hospitals. With semi-altruistic providers and a fairly general cost …

hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …

hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals faced a unique predicament. Hospital care was urgently needed and society took … efforts to prevent overwhelming hospitals. However, hospitals in case-based reimbursement schemes faced financial problems …, emergency financing measures were implemented in many countries. We analyze how hospitals in Germany responded to a scheme that …