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The employment effect of deregulating shopping hours : evidence from German retailing
Bossler, Mario; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2014
employment in food retailing. Using data on the universe of German shops, we find that relaxing restrictions on business hours …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250603
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Product market deregulation and employment outcomes : evidence from the German retail sector
Senftleben-König, Charlotte - 2014
This paper investigates the short- and medium-term effects of the deregulation of shopopening hours legislation on … a gradual deregulation of shop opening restrictions in most of Germany's sixteen federal states. The paper exploits … regional variation in the legislation in order to identify the effect product market deregulation has on retail employment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238361
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Product market regulation and labor market outcomes : how can deregulation create jobs?
Burda, Michael C. - 2000
attributed to product market deregulation, in particular liberalization of shop-closing laws effected in the mid-1990s. I sketch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781500
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Product market regulation and labor market outcomes : how can deregulation create jobs?
Burda, Michael C. - 2000
attributed to product market deregulation, in particular liberalization of ship-closing laws effected in the mid-1990s. I sketch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001452285
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The Impact of the Internet on Retail Competition: Evidence from Technological Differences in Internet Access
Gebhardt, Georg - 2010
retailing sectors, electronics (price competition), books (no price competition), and food (no online sales), to identify the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333892
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Collusive upward gasoline price movements in medium-sized German cities
Neukirch, Arne; Wein, Thomas - 2016
Do we have effective competition between the gasoline's big five oligopolists (Aral, Shell, Esso, Total and Jet) and fringe gasoline stations? Using 2014 Market Transparency price data from 66 cities with populations between 60,000 and 100,000, we analyze which brands lead price increases, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487769
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The impact of the internet on retail competition : evidence from technological differences in internet access
Gebhardt, Georg - 2010
retailing sectors, electronics (price competition), books (no price competition), and food (no online sales), to identify the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008823169
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Heterogeneous pass-through over space and time : the case of Germany's fuel tax discount
Frondel, Manuel; Thiel, Patrick; Vance, Colin - 2024
Exploiting exogenous variation in retail fuel prices from a temporary fuel tax discount in Germany, we estimate how the pass-through of the discount varies over space and time. We draw on daily gasoline prices of virtually all gas stations in Germany and neighboring France, with France serving...
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Entry Deterrence in Postal Service Markets
Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst - 2007
In this paper we analyze the incentive of the German postal service (Deutsche Post AG, DPAG) to increase quality in the light of the upcoming liberalization of the postal services market. Currently, there would be no incentive for DPAG to increase its quality if the market were not to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297983
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Does occupational deregulation affect in-company vocational training? : evidence from the 2004 reform of the German Trade and Crafts Code
Runst, Petrik; Thomä, Jörg - 2018
estimate the effects of the deregulation of the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 on the overall vocational training levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040257