This thesis strives to offer new insights in two main areas. First, in the well-researched domain of payment cards chapters 2 and 3 investigate an aspect that has hitherto been scantly examined, namely, the fact that merchant usage fees differ substantially among merchant sectors. Additionally,...

This study was prepared by Nadine Fabritz while she was working at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in the Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in October...

Mots-clés de l'autrice: energy policy ; electricity markets ; market liberalization ; technology restrictions ; energy modeling ; top-down model ; bottom-up model ; soft-link coupling ; general equilibrium

This study was prepared by Nadine Fabritz while she was working at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in the Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in October...

In Deutschland wird die Wasserwirtschaft nach wie vor fast ausschließlich von Unternehmen im öffentlichen Eigentum betrieben, die kaum Wettbewerbskräften ausgesetzt sind. -- Stephan Schönefuß erarbeitet vor diesem Hintergrund einen theoretisch fundierten Vorschlag für eine...