the quantity and quality of care that newborns receive. Based on the universe of hospital births in Germany from the years …Birth weight manipulation is common in per-case hospital reimbursement systems, in which hospitals receive more money …

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 …

the quantity and quality of care that newborns receive. Based on the universe of hospital births in Germany from the years …Birth weight manipulation is common in per-case hospital reimbursement systems, in which hospitals receive more money …

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 …

increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. Uniquely, this reform changed the …

increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. Uniquely, this reform changed the … erbringen. Wir testen diese Vorhersage auf Grundlage einer Reform der Krankenhausfinanzierung in Deutschland. Das Besondere an … der Finanzierungsreform in Deutschland ist, dass die Reform die Preise für Krankenhäuser verändert hat - mit steigenden …

the hospital level. To identify a causal effect, I develop a unique identification strategy where I exploit hospitals …' exposure to snowfall. A particularity of the reform led to exogenous treatment price shocks at hospital level in response to …

and 2010 based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. We find that changes in reimbursement prices do not affect … prices for hospitals on multiple dimensions of hospital quality, including mortality outcomes, surgical complications …, chirurgischen Komplikationen, Prozessqualität und Patientenzufriedenheit. Auf Grundlage einer Reform der Krankenhausfinanzierung in …

a trade-off between efficiency and quality in the delivery of US hospital care …

spending is distributed across the population. This paper uses administrative National Health Service (NHS) hospital records to … examine key features of public hospital spending in England. We describe how costs vary across the lifecycle, and the … after age 70. Spending is highly concentrated in a small section of the population: with 32% of all hospital spending …