structures in antitrust cases. For hospital markets, both dimensions are controversially discussed in the literature. Using data … for the German hospital market we aim at elaborating the need for differentiating the product market and at investigating … contribute to the scarce empirical evidence on the structure of the German hospital market. We find that the German hospital …

structures in antitrust cases. For hospital markets, both dimensions are controversially discussed in the literature. Using data … for the German hospital market we aim at elaborating the need for differentiating the product market and at investigating … contribute to the scarce empirical evidence on the structure of the German hospital market. We find that the German hospital …

im Gesundheitswesen, die dort in zahlreichen Projekten erfolgreich umgesetzt wurde. Um Empfehlungen für Deutschland … abzuleiten, werden die Rahmenbedingungen in Frankreich, Großbritannien und Deutschland verglichen. Mit Hilfe der … Auftragnehmer während der verschiedenen Phasen des Projektes sind effiziente PPP-Krankenhausprojekte auch in Deutschland möglich …

times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the …

The introduction of hospital reimbursement based on diagnosis related groups (DRG) in 2004 has been a conspicuous … attempt to increase hospital efficiency in the German health sector. In this paper changes of hospital efficiency, quantified … of negative spatial spillovers among German hospital performance can be diagnosed. This result is in line with a rise of …

how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure,and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor … hospitals. -- Hospital efficiency ; ownership ; stochastic frontier analysis ; profit function …

In this paper we investigate the existence of a two-tier medical system in the German acute care hospital sector using … data from a survey of 483 German hospitals. The focus of our analysis lies on the impact of hospital concentration on the … hospitals by privileging profitable patients than hospitals in highly concentrated markets. -- Hospital markets ; Patients …

Die sich verändernde Altersstruktur in Deutschland bedingt eine Veränderung der Finanzierungsmodalitäten im deutschen …The changing age structure of Germany's population requires a change in the financing model of the German health sector … evaluation of clinical treatment, that the over capacity in hospital beds will be reduced in the face of increased competition …

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the …

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the …