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

, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform … and patients’ health, and the optimal discharge date before the reform. Testing the results with data, we find a large …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect …

allow for heterogeneity in costs and qualities, we also show that a softer budget can raise quality for high-cost patients … (and therefore reduce ‘skimping' on such patients) …

health care services among hospitals patients. These effects were stronger for adoptions occurring when also the national …

Many countries have reformed hospital reimbursement policies to provide stronger incentives for quality and cost …

This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a … framework. Patients differ in severity within a DRG. Providers are to some extent altruistic. For low altruism, a downward … adjustment depends on relation between patients’ severity and benefit. In a steady state, DRG prices are unlikely to give optimal …

We determine the optimal health policy mix when the average utility of patients increases with the supply of drugs …