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Market power and heterogeneous pass-through in German electricity retail
Duso, Tomaso; Szücs, Florian - 2016
We analyze the pass-through of cost changes to retail tariffs in the German electricity market over the 2007 to 2014 period. We find an average pass-through rate of around 60%, which significantly varies with demand factors: while the pass-through rate to baseline tariffs, where firms have...
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Macroeconomic effects of rental housing regulations: The case of Germany in 1950-2015
Cholodilin, Konstantin A.; Licheron, Julien - 2017
housing construction in Germany in 1950 to 2015. The regulations are measured by the indices developed by the authors based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622027
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The effect of a ban on gender-based pricing on risk selection in the German health insurance market
Huang, Shan; Salm, Martin - 2019
used to be a pricing factor in Germany's private health insurance (PHI) sector, it was never used as a pricing factor in …
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Mortality in midlife for subgroups in Germany
Haan, Peter; Hammerschmid, Anna; Schmieder, Julia - 2019
continued to decrease in several other high-income countries including Germany. However, average mortality rates can disguise … in Germany over the 1990 to 2015 period with a focus on deaths of despair. Our results show a very clear pattern: We find …
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Semi-parametric measures of scale characteristics of German natural gas-fired electricity generation
Seifert, Stefan - 2016
applied to a unique sample covering 124 natural gas-fired power plants operating in Germany in 2011. Results indicate that on … fragmentation of gas-fired electricity generation in Germany, but emphasize the importance of using best practices on plant level. …
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Market break or simply fake? Empirics on the causal effects of rent controls in Germany
Cholodilin, Konstantin A.; Mense, Andreas; Michelsen, Claus - 2016
Rising rents in German cities have led to an intense debate about the need for tighter rent controls in housing markets. In April 2015, the so-called rental brake was introduced, which imposes upper bounds for rents in new contracts, in order to immediately slow down the increase of rents in...
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Temporary VAT reduction during the lockdown
Clemens, Marius; Röger, Werner - 2022
impact of the VAT reduction in conjunction with the lockdowns in 2020-2021 in Germany. We use nonlinear solution techniques …
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The effects of an increase in the retirement age on health: Evidence from administrative data
Barschkett, Mara; Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; … - 2021
Germany and including all certified diagnoses by practitioners. This enables us to gain a detailed understanding of the multi …
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Foreign debt, capital controls, and secondary markets: Theory and evidence from Nazi Germany
Papadia, Andrea; Schioppa, Claudio A. - 2022
historical evidence, we study one of history's largest debt repatriations - that of 1930s Germany. We show that the authorities …
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Decentralized energy: How 100% renewable energy regions affect households' energy saving behavior
De Palma, Alessandro; Faillo, Marco; Gabriele, Roberto - 2023
This paper focuses on decentralized energy in Germany and how households' environmental behavior in terms of energy …
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