Many countries limit public and private reimbursement for nursing care costs for social or financial reasons. Still, quality varies across nursing homes. We explore the causal link between case‐mix adjusted nurse staffing ratios as an indicator of care quality and different price components in...

Amidst demographic shifts, advanced economies are facing critical nursing shortages. This study analyzes strategies of German nursing care providers to address these shortages using administrative data for the period 2007 to 2017. Our analysis reveals that higher nursing shortages correlate with...

Rationalisierungsmaßnahmen sind bei steigenden Ausgaben in einem vor allem durch Umlagen finanzierten Gesundheitssystem wichtige Mittel zur Erreichung einer effizienten Produktion und Allokation der Ressourcen. In diesem Artikel werden verschiedene deutsche Regulierungsansätze zur Stärkung...

Sechs Seminar-/Projektarbeiten von Studierenden des Moduls Gesundheitsökonomie (Bsc. VWL und Bsc. BWL) der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf aus dem Sommer 2012. Inhaltsverzeichnis, Band 2: Arzneimittel. Kapitel 3: Dmitrij Schneider: Vertrauens-...

Sechs Seminar-/Projektarbeiten von Studierenden des Moduls Gesundheitsökonomie (Bsc. VWL und Bsc. BWL) der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf aus dem Sommer 2012. Inhaltsverzeichnis, Band 1: Krankenhäuser. Kapitel 1: Steffen Grisse:...

This paper investigates cost and profit efficiency of German hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure,and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor outputs of the production process. We conduct a...

Hospital markets are often characterised by price regulation and the existence of different ownership types. Using a Hotelling framework, this paper analyses the effect of different objectives of the hospitals on quality, profits, and overall welfare in a price regulated duopoly with symmetric...

Hospital markets are often characterised by price regulation and the existence of different ownership types. Using a Hotelling framework, this paper analyses the effect of heterogeneous objectives of the hospitals on quality differentiation, profits, and overall welfare in a price regulated...