role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held …

development over time.We measure financial performance by a hospital-specific yearly probability of default (PD). Using a panel of … hospital data, our models allow for state dependence in the PD as well as unobserved individual heterogeneity. We find that … because the German hospital market has substantial excess capacities …

vertical integration observed in the US hospital industry, but also has surprising implications for the effects of such … integration on hospital and physician prices, and hence, for antitrust policy and empirical studies of pricing …

hypotheses that predict the ownership type would affect the extent to which the hospital strategically manages revenues and costs … hospitals. Moreover, there is strong evidence that the association between the extensive use of SCM strategies and hospital … financial performance is a function of the “match” between SCM use and a hospital's ownership type, operating characteristics …