marktverschließenden Wirkungen der dualistischen Krankenhausfinanzierung, gehen auf die besondere Problematik von Krankenhäusern in der …The increasing number of hospital mergers over the last few years has lead to some debate over the form and degree of … paper analyses regionalism and hospital competition, highlighting several aspects: We shed light on the market …

differential merger outcomes are caused mostly by firms' technology or product market attributes. Furthermore, empirical merger …. We allow the merger responses to vary across firms, even after controlling for regressors, and apply a random …' postmerger output further increases (and postmerger price further declines) if merging firms are more efficient, operate in more …

horizontal merger activity. We propose a theoretically-backed methodological approach to classify mergers that yields more … information on merger types and merger effects, and that can, moreover, distinguish between mergers characterized largely by … approach is that it encompasses the impact of merger events not only on merging firms (custom in the literature), but also on …

-based synergies in horizontal merger activity. We propose a schematic to classify mergers that yields more information on merger types … and merger effects, and that can, moreover, distinguish between mergers characterized largely by collusion-based synergies … encompasses the impact of merger events not only on merging firms - as is custom - but also on non-merging competitor firms (the …

-based synergies in horizontal merger activity. We propose a schematic to classify mergers that yields more information on merger types … and merger effects, and that can, moreover, distinguish between mergers characterized largely by collusion-based synergies … encompasses the impact of merger events not only on merging firms – as is custom – but also on non-merging competitor firms (the …