Der Beitrag zeigt den Einfluss von administrierten Preisen und indirekter Besteuerung auf die aktuelle Preisentwicklung. Im Euroraum herrscht seit geraumer Zeit eine ausgeprägte Disinflation; der harmonisierte Verbraucherpreisindex liegt aktuell sogar unter Vorjahresniveau. Maßgeblich für...

Das statistische Amt der Europäischen Gemeinschaften veröffentlicht regelmäßig Indizes für die Entwicklung administrierter Preise im Euro-Währungsgebiet. Sie umfassen Produkte, deren Preise staatlicher Einflussnahme unterliegen. Es zeigt sich, dass im vergangenen Jahr die Preisdynamik bei...

Multimarket contact theory predicts that firms will optimally reduce prices in markets where collusive prices are sustainable and allocate the slack of the corresponding incentive compatibility to increase prices in markets where collusion is not sustainable. Binding price caps in collusive...

Postal and delivery services are an important sector of the economy. While express courier services are booming, traditional postal services are gradually declining because of the esubstitution effect. It is vital for the sector to foster competitive playing level fields also by granting access...

The changes faced by the global rail industry in recent years have brought a redefinition of some of the traditional regulatory instruments available in this sector. This paper, focusing on price and quality regulation, discusses how these instruments have been applied in several countries where...

This paper studies how patent rights and price regulation affect how fast new drugs are launched in different countries, using newly constructed data on launches of 642 new drugs in 76 countries for the period 1983-2002, and information on the duration and content of patent and price control...

This paper carries out non-parametric relative efficiency comparisons using an international sample of gas distribution utilities from two old and one new EU members, namely the Netherlands, the UK, and Slovenia. By conducting DEA on a cross-sectional sample of gas utilities, we discover that,...

This paper provides empirical evidence on the explanatory factors affecting introductory prices of new pharmaceuticals in a heavily regulated and highly subsidized market. We collect a data set consisting of all new chemical entities launched in Spain between 1997 and 2005, and model launching...

This paper estimates the price sensitivity of the quality of acute stroke care using a regression kink design. When Danish hospitals reach a production target, marginal taris for treating acute stroke patients falls by 50%{100%. This reimbursement scheme allow us to identify local average...

We experimentally examine the effects of price competition in markets for expe-rience goods where sellers can build up reputations for quality. We compare price competition to monopolistic markets and markets where prices are exogenously fixed (somewhere between the endogenous oligopoly and...