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This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …
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We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...
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We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...
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competition. In this paper we provide the first empirical analysis of this relationship. We study Germany's retail gasoline market … on outcomes linked to competition. Because station-level adoption is endogenous, we use brand headquarter-level adoption … competition …
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quality - but also with more competition among suppliers. Both associations hold only for parts involving comparatively … relationships involving higher trust, buyers are able to induce higher investment and more intense competition among suppliers - but …
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publications in Wiley and Springer Nature journals at the cost of other journals. From that two related competition concerns emerge …
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This paper investigates the impact of the largest rail strikes in German history on intercity buses – a then newly liberalised market. Using unique booking data of bus services, we exploit variation in rail service cancellations across routes to show that the disruption in rail transport...
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I consider a model in which an asset owner must decide how much to invest in his asset mindful of the fact that an encroacher's valuation of the asset is increasing in the asset owner's investment. Due to incomplete property rights, the encroacher and asset owner engage in a contest over the...
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The role of product market reforms in achieving the objective of higher employment and growth has recently received much attention amongst academics. The aim of this paper is to analyse some of the channels through which cross-market effects come about and to assess their policy relevance. The...
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equilibrium unemployment. The relationship between the long-run unemployment and the intensity of product market competition is …
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