There is ample evidence of widespread inefficiency in health care systems. This paper aims to estimate relative efficiency of health care systems across all EU countries. The paper uses a comprehensive battery of models with different combinations of input and output variables. Outputs are the...

This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected profitability of PHI relative to SHI...

Die "Ökonomisierung" des Gesundheitswesens und somit auch des Krankenhausmarktes macht sich seit Beginn der neunziger Jahre verstärkt in der Eigentümerstruktur der Krankenhäuser bemerkbar (Neubauer 1999). Sie äußert sich u. a. in einer Verschiebung der Anteile an der Versorgung aller...