The inefficiency of health care provision presents a major health policy concern in Germany. In order to address the issue of efficiency comprehensively - i.e., at the level of the entire system of health care provision rather than individual service providers - empirical analyses are often...

Deutschland leistet sich ein im internationalen Vergleich hohes Angebot an medizinischer Versorgung. Im Krankenhausbereich weist Deutschland eine um mehr als 50% höhere Bettendichte auf als die OECD-Länder im Durchschnitt. In der OECD ist in den vergangenen 10 Jahren ein massiver Bettenabbau...

RWI: Materialien Heft 49 Boris Augurzky, Harald Tauchmann, Andreas Werbiow und Stefan Felder Effizienzreserven im Gesundheitswesen UNIVERSITÄT RG Vs'sW Inhalt Executive Summary ...

The inefficiency of health care provision presents a major health policy concern in Germany. In order to address the issue of efficiency comprehensively - i.e. at the level of the entire system of health care provision rather than individual service providers - empirical analyses are often based...

This paper shows that popular linear fixed-effects panel-data estimators (first-differences, within-transformation) are biased and inconsistent when applied in a discrete-time hazard setting, that is, one with the outcome variable being a binary dummy indicating an absorbing state, even if the...