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Recent healthcare reforms have sought to increase efficiency by introducing managed care (MC) as an alternative to conventional care. This article proposes an institutional change designed to let German consumers choose between the two settings through directing payments from the Federal Health...
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In contrast to the United States, Germany decided to add margin squeeze as a legal offense to German competition law. In response to this, the problems in the gasoline market have caused major debates. This paper examines the pricing strategies by gasoline retailers and discusses the...
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The EU electricity directive (96/92/EC) established the right of the member states to choose between Regulated and Negotiated Third Party Access (RTPA and NTPA). The interest group theory is able to explain whether the introduction of NTPA in Germany had been an interest group equilibrium under...
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Die Befragung Lüneburger Handwerksbetriebe, die im Rahmen eines Projektes zur Regulierung auf dem deutschen Handwerksmarkt in Zusammenarbeit mit der Kreishandwerkerschaft Lüneburg durchgeführt wurde, soll Auswirkungen der Anfang 2004 erfolgten Handwerksreform erfassen. Dabei liegt der...
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Die Anfang 2004 durchgeführten Reformen auf dem Handwerksmarkt hatten vor allem eine Erleichterung des Marktzutritts und damit mehr Wettbewerb zum Ziel. Die erwartete Zunahme der Anbieter, durch die es zu sinkenden Preisen und einer steigenden Nachfrage kommen soll, konnte zumindest auf...
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Für die Neufassung der Handwerksordnung zum 1.1.2004 war die hohe Ausbildungsleistung des Handwerks ein zentrales Argument, die im Falle einer überzogenen Deregulierung einbrechen würde. Folgt man der ökonomischen Theorie werden Handwerksbetriebe ausbilden, wenn der erwartete Nutzen die...
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Reviewing the development of network access charges in the German electricity market since 2002 reveals significant variation. While some firms continually increased or decreased their access charges, a variety of firms exhibited discontinuous behavior with price changes in both directions. From...
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The exemption for Value Added Taxation (VAT) can be used to pursue distributive objectives. Goods like food, housing, medicine, or infrastructure services (water, telecommunication, postal) are very often partially or totally exempted from VAT. The exemption of infrastructure services had been...
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