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focused in discussing the changes that are needed at the level of the financial architecture and the regulations that apply to …
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and monarchical regulations, in order to understand the appearance of new social structures that promote the …
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Reference prices constitute a main determinant of patient health care reimbursement in many countries. We study the effects of a change from an "external" (based on a basket of prices in other countries) to an "internal" (based on comparable domestic products) reference price system. We find...
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Since the summer of 2007, participants in financial markets have been confronted by a crisis of their own making. In order to prevent the recurrence of a similar crisis in the future, the G-20 nations, at their finance summit in Washington on 15 November 2008, resolved to "ensure that all...
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A current topic in Germany and the EU is the review of railway legislation regarding access and price regulation as … whether unbundling requirements should be extended. Secondly, it discusses a possible new design of price regulation … principles. Before analysing these proposals, this paper describes the specific requirements for regulation of the railway sector …
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-free", product labeling. The rules and regulations governing the "GM-free" product label in the European Union are discussed in …
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explains why the problem of asymmetric information, which disadvantages consumers, needs governmental regulation as the …
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The article documents the discussion of a workshop on the Riester saving which took place at DIW Berlin. Workshop participants included scientists, consumer advocates, representatives from the financial services industry, and politicians. The workshop addressed a number of controversial topics,...
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In the course of the deregulation of the telecommunication and energy sector new price regulation mechanisms were … leads to the issue what kind of proce regulation should be implemented. In the water sector conditions are a bit different … monopolistic exploitation of customers. This contribution gives an overview what kind of regulation systems are conceivable and …
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Critics accuse so called Riester products of having excessive costs and being unprofitable due to excessive life expectancy assumptions. The author examines the validity of the criticism, highlighting the methodological limitations of the studies. Thus, due to the individually differentiated...
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