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...

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...

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...

Dieses Papier untersucht die empirischen Effekte der Deregulierung der Kfz-Versicherungstarife durch die 3. Sachversicherungsrichtlinie der EU aus dem Jahr 1994 auf die Risikostruktur des deutschen Kfz-Versicherungsmarktes und die Betriebsergebnisse der Kfz-Versicherungsanbieter. Unsere...

SWD-Schlagwörter: Interessenverband, Gesundheit, Gesundheitspolitik, Lobbyismus, Regulierung . - Freie Schlagwörter (Deutsch): Interessengruppen, Gesundheitsmarkt, Regulierung, politischer Druck, Lobbyismus. - Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch): interest groups, health care market, political...

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...

In this study, we propose our hypothesis that the distinguishable principal-agent relationships of German banks are significantly influencing the risk-taking attitudes of bank managers. Particularly, we intend to substantiate the theory that banks owned by dispersed shareholders or federal state...