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The Effects of Reference Pricing on Ex-Factory Prices of Rx Drugs in Germany - a Panel Data Approach

Augurzky, Boris - 2006

This paper examines effects of reference pricing for prescription drugs in German social health insurance based on econometric panel data methods. We analyze the effect on ex-factory prices. Moreover, we investigate whether manufacturers adapt prices of their products not subject to reference...

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Identifying the Rebound : Theoretical Issues and Empirical Evidence from a German Household Panel

Frondel, Manuel; Peters, Jörg; Vance, Colin - 2015

Using a panel of household travel diary data collected in Germany between 1997 and 2005, this study assesses the …

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Does Money Buy Higher Schooling? Evidence from Secondary School Track Choice in Germany

Tamm, Marcus - 2007

The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in life. School track choice heavily influences choices and opportunities later in life. It has often been observed that secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation...

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Who Gets the Credit? Determinants of the Probability of Default in the German Hospital Sector

Augurzky, Boris; Engel, Dirk; Schwierz, Christoph - 2007

Huge underinvestment increases the need for private borrowing in the German hospital sector, the access to which is partly determined by the probability of default (PD) of individual hospitals. Using ordinary least squares and quantile regression techniques this paper provides first empirical...

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Hard Coal Subsidies : A Never-Ending Story?

Frondel, Manuel; Kambeck, Rainer; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2007

In Germany, hard coal has been subsidized for almost half a century. Despite the declining significance of hard coal … raised by the proponents of hard coal subsidization in Germany and other EU countries. Most importantly, in addition to the … subsidies not only in Germany, where in nominal terms the accumulated amount of subsidies has now by far exceeded 130 billion …

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Tobacco and Alcohol : Complements or Substitutes? - a Statistical Guinea Pig Approach

Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Tilman; … - 2007

The question of whether two drugs - namely alcohol and tobacco - are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-drug policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...

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On the Link between Urban Form and Automobile Use - Evidence from German Survey Data

Vance, Colin; Hedel, Ralf - 2014

This study investigates the influence of urban form on automobile travel using travel-diary data from Germany. Two …

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Copayments in the German Health System - Do They Work?

Augurzky, Boris; Bauer, Thomas K.; Schaffner, Sandra - 2007

This paper examines the effect of copayments on doctor visits using the German health care reform of 2004 as a natural experiment. In January 2004, copayments of 10 euros for the first doctor visit in each quarter have been introduced for all adults in the statutory health insurance. Individuals...

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On the Restrictiveness of Separability : The Significance of Energy in German Manufacturing

Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2014

Any researcher would certainly agree with Hamermesh's (1993:34) intuition about separability that the ease of substitution between any two production factors should be unaffected by a third factor that is separable from the others. This paper emphasizes that such a notion of separability needs...

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Price Elasticities and Social Health Insurance Choice in Germany : A Dynamic Panel Data Approach

Gress, Stefan; Tamm, Marcus; Tauchmann, Harald; Wasem, … - 2014

In 1996 free choice of health insurers has been introduced in the German social health insurance scheme. Competition between insurers was supposed to increase efficiency. A crucial precondition for effective competition among health insurers is that consumers search for lower-priced health...

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