%0 Journal Article
%T Effects of Ownership on Hospital Efficiency in Germany
%A Oliver Tiemann
%A Jonas Schrey£¿gg
%J BuR : Business Research
%D 2009
%I Verband der Hochschullehrer f¨¹r Betriebswirtschaft e.V.
%X The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1,046) of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals between 2002 and 2006. This was followed by a second-step truncated linear regression model with bootstrapped DEA efficiency scores as dependent variable. The results show that public hospitals performed significantly better than their private for-profit and non-profit counterparts. In addition, we found a significant positive association between hospital size and efficiency, and that competitive pressure had a significant negative impact on hospital efficiency.
%K Germany
%K data envelopment analysis
%K non-parametric technique
%K ownership
%K performance measurement
%K public hospitals
%K truncated regression
%U http://www.business-research.org/2009/2/03management/2170/stoll1260789786.78.pdf