To increase competition in the retail market for gasoline, Germany's Federal Cartel Office established the so … margins of gas stations. We find that the MTU fostered a more intense competition, with a reduction in price margins of 1 …Mit dem Ziel den Wettbewerb auf dem Benzinmarkt zu erhöhen, wurde die so genannte Markttransparenzstelle für …

identical across brands, irrespective of the lag count, suggesting a high degree of competition among brands. … den fünf großen Tankstellenmarken. Dies spricht für eine sehr hohes Maß an Wettbewerb im deutschen Tankstellenmarkt. Die …

brand and to the degree of competition in the vicinity of the station. Our analysis identifies several factors other than …

threat of low-wage competition from Central and Eastern European countries is relatively high. In addition, firms paying … is high. -- Minimum wage ; product market competition ; service sector …

financing systems aimed at increasing the competition between universities by making their public funds dependent on their … increased competition between universities causes grade inflation. -- Grade inflation ; higher education funding ; university … competition …

Using a large panel data set of German manufacturing establishments, this paper investigates the impact of competition … relationship between product market competition and firms' incentives to invest in employees' general skills (Gersbach and … Schmutzler 2006). In our empirical analysis, product market competition is approximated by various measures of competition such …