Sebastian Landschulze untersucht in seiner Studie die Wirkungen des chronologischen Alters auf das Kaufverhalten der Konsumenten. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf den altersbezogenen Bedingungen, die dazu führen, dass gerade ältere Konsumenten auch zu unbekannten und innovativen Produkten und Marken...

This paper uses individual level data to analyze the effect of changes in the compulsory benefit package of the German statutory health insurance scheme on the demand for private supplementary insurance. In particular, we aim at measuring the effect of excluding dentures from the benefit package...

Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new...

Focusing on individual motorists in car-owning households in Germany, this paper econometrically investigates the determinants of automobile travel with the specific aim of quantifying the effects of fuel prices and person-level attributes on travel conducted over a five-day week and weekend....