Insurance products are distributed both by independent and dependent agents, although the use of independent agents is more costly. The product quality hypothesis states that independent agents provide both insurers and customers with higher service quality and therefore, remain on the market....

Insurance intermediation services are information services which exhibit strong information asymmetries. We empirically analyze whether signaling works in the German market for insurance intermediation services. For this a signal must increase service quality and be easily identifiable by...

Am 1. Juli 2005 ist die 7. Kartellnovelle in Kraft getreten. Im Mittelpunkt steht eine Anpassung des deutschen an das europäische Kartellrecht. Was wurde bei der Harmonisierung des deutschen Kartellrechts im einzelnen beschlossen?

This high-stakes experiment investigates the effect on buyers of mandatory disclosures concerning an insurance policy's value for money (the claims ratio) and the seller's commission. These information disclosures have virtually no effect despite most buyers claiming to value such information....