Health Care & Public Management

Prof. Dr. Christian Ernst

Chris Ernst holds the chair for the Economics and Management of Social Services at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart (Germany). He is also the current managing director of the Institute of Health Care and Public Management. Chris is the editor for the health care and public management section of the Review of Managerial Studies and is also a reviewer for many journals in this field.  

Chris Ernst studied business administration, political science and Romanic languages at Tübingen University. He obtained both his PhD in 1999 and his postdoctoral degree (habilitation) from the Goethe University in Frankfurt a. M., Germany. Chris has spent time as a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in the U.S.  and the University of Auckland.

Research interests

  • Managerial Accounting and Control in Health Care Organizations
  • Incentive System Design in Health Care
  • High Cost Areas in Health Care Organizations
  • Pay for Performance in Health Care and the Public Sector

Selected publications

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Ernst,C., Holderried, M., Höper, A., Tropitzsch, A., Holderried, F., Blumenstock, G. (2017), Attitudes toward e-Health: the otolaryngologist & apos; point of view->forthcoming, in: Telemedicine and e-Health.
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Szczesny,A./Ernst, C. (2016), “The Role of Performance Reporting System Characteristics fort the Coordination of High-Cost Areas in Hospitals”, European Accounting Review 25: 635-660.
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Ernst, C/Rouse, P. (2016), Complexity, Tertiariness and Healthcare: Unresolved Issues of Reimbursement and Incentives”, Swiss Journal of Business Research and Practice 70: 227-247.
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Holderried, M., Hummel, R., Falch,  C., Kirschniak,  A., Koenigsrainer, A., Ernst, C., Muller, S. (2016) „Compliance of Clinical Pathways in Elective Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Evaluation of Different Implementation Methods”, World Journal of Surgery 40: 2888-2891.
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Ernst, C., Szczesny, A., Soderstrom, N., Siegmund, F., Schleppers, A. (2012), “Success of commonly used operating room management tools in reducing tardiness of first case of the day starts: evidence from German hospitals”, Anesthesia & Analgesia 115: 671-677.
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Ernst, C. (2003) “The interaction between cost-management and learning for major surgical procedures - lessons from asymmetric information”m Health Economics 12, 199-215.
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Albrecht, D., Wollensak, T., Becker, C., Hauzinger, M., Pfeiffer, K. (2016), “Costs of informal care in a sample of German geriatric stroke survivors, European Journal of Ageing 13:49-61.