Hosting the 2006 FIFA World Championship induced a boom in stadium investments in Germany. A second wave of smaller arena constructions can currently be observed across the country. These projects are promoted by smaller clubs of the first and the second Bundesliga, aiming not to fall behind the...

Hosting the 2006 FIFA World Championship induced a boom in stadium investments in Germany. A second wave of smaller arena constructions can currently be observed across the country. These projects are promoted by smaller clubs of the first and the second Bundesliga, aiming not to fall behind the...

Hosting the 2006 FIFA World Championship induced a boom in stadium investments in Germany. A second wave of smaller arena constructions can currently be observed across the country. These projects are promoted by smaller clubs of the first and the second Bundesliga, aiming not to fall behind the...

The extent of market efficiency induced by rational behaviour of market participants is central for economic research. Many economists have already examined sports-betting markets as a laboratory to better understand trading behaviour and efficiency of stock prices while avoiding to jointly test...

Spätestens die Vergabe der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006 hat in Deutschland einen Sportstadien-Bauboom verursacht. Dieser erscheint auch nötig, um die veraltete deutsche Stadion-Infrastruktur wieder internationalen Standards anzugleichen. Jedoch treffen diese gestiegenen Investitionswünsche...

This paper gives a first economic approach to pro cycling and analyses the changes induced by the newly introduced UCI Pro Tour on the racing teams? behaviour. We develop an oligopolistic model starting from the well known Bertrand and Cournot frameworks to analyse if the actual setting of the...

This paper offers new insights into the Italian mutual fund industry. Surveying Italian professionals, we do not only reveal typical gender differences but also detect divergence to their German counterparts. While disclosing Italian professionals? overly positive self-assessment in general, we...

Deutschland befindet sich 2023/24 in einer Phase ausgeprägter Wachstumsschwäche, die nicht nur, aber auch durch übermäßige Regulierung und hoher Belastung durch Bürokratiekosten verursacht ist. Dieser Kurzbeitrag analysiert einige ausgewählte Bereiche, die besonders durch Überregulierung...

Vor mittlerweile mehr als 25 Jahren wurde mit Einführung des freien Krankenkassenwahlrechts die deutsche gesetzliche Krankenversicherung (GKV) in eine marktwirtschaftliche Ordnung überführt, in welcher gesetzliche Krankenkassen zueinander im Wettbewerb stehen. In Folge dessen hat eine...