Over the last 20 years, acute care hospitals in most OECD have built up costly overcapacities. From the perspective of economic policy, it is desirable to know how hospitals of different ownership form respond to changes in demand and are probably best suited to deal with existing...

Over the last 20 years, acute care hospitals in most OECD have built up costly overcapacities. From the perspective of economic policy, it is desirable to know how hospitals of different ownership form respond to changes in demand and are probably best suited to deal with existing...

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...