The internet revolution is said to foster integration of the market for financial services, since consumers are able to … shop around at all companies worldwide and firms can easily offer their services on the internet at a minimum of …

deutlich, dass die laufenden Kosten von aufgeschobenen Leibrentenversicherungen zum Teil deutlich unter den Kosten für … Ansparen in Investmentfonds mit gleicher durchschnittlicher Renditeerwartung vor Kosten, wie sie private Rentenversicherungen … bieten, und den hier unterstellten Kosten für aktienorientierte Investmentfonds aus Kostensicht nicht immer effizient ist. …

In the debate on the premature phase-out of nuclear power generation in Germany, there is an intense dispute on the …-out regulations affect both the magnitude of total economic costs and the distribution of these costs across nuclear power plants and … competing companies. Based on a dynamic partial equilibrium analysis of power supply options, we quantify the excess costs of …

investments of banks at the security level for 2005-2012 in conjunction with the credit register from Germany. Analyzing data at …

In markets where sellers' marginal costs of production have a common component, they have informational advantage over … buyers regarding those costs. This information asymmetry between sellers and buyers is especially relevant in markets where … such information asymmetry. Our main finding is that informing buyers about marginal costs may harm them by deterring …