drug substitution and competition. Since 2006, Germany follows an innovative approach by differentiating drug co …

efficient. The increased number of hospital mergers suggests that merging is a way to become more efficient to ensure long …

Prior research on the nonprice theory of hospital competition uses data prior to the mid-1980s when third party payers … were insensitive to hospital prices. Moreover, existing studies fail to test this theory for the different types of … hospital ownership. In response to these issues, this research employs a more current data set and examines this theory for …

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 …