This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the … prices for almost all German health plans. Mixed logit models incorporate a total of 1,700 health plan choices with more than … 50 choice sets for each individual. The findings suggest that, compared to prices, health plan service quality and …

This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the … prices for almost all German health plans. Mixed logit models incorporate a total of 1,700 health plan choices with more than … 50 choice sets for each individual. The findings suggest that, compared to prices, health plan service quality and …

This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the … prices for almost all German health plans. Mixed logit models incorporate a total of 1,700 health plan choices with more than … 50 choice sets for each individual. The findings suggest that, compared to prices, health plan service quality and …

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The German decision to finally phase-out nuclear electricity has led to a debate on its effects on electricity prices …, emission prices in the European emission trading system, as well as on international electricity trade. We investigate these … phase-out on electricity and emission prices. Under a tight system, however, investments in conventional generation are …

We analyze the current regulatory regime for electricity transmission in Germany, which combines network planning with …

We develop a game-theoretic electricity market model that allows analyzing strategic electricity storage in an … storage operation. We find that introducing storage generally smoothes conventional generation patterns and market prices and … increases consumer rent and overall welfare. In contrast, electricity producers generally suffer from storage. We also find that …

In this paper, we develop the game-theoretic electricity market model ElStorM that includes the possibility of … strategic electricity storage. We apply the model to the German electricity market and analyze different realistic and …, depending on policy objectives. We also find that the introduction of electricity storage generally increases overall welfare …