(1) Die Landesbasisfallwerte (LBFW) des Jahres 2014 weisen keinen statistisch signifikanten Zusammenhang mehr mit den auf Krankenhausebene beobachtbaren Kosten auf (vgl. Abschnitt 4.1). (2) Die nach wie vor bestehenden Unterschiede in den LBFW spiegeln nicht die gegenwärtige Kostenstruktur der...

On 25 November 2015, the European Union enacted new rules for international mobile roaming (IMR) under Regulation 2015/2120, which seeks to implement a Roam Like at Home (RLAH) regime among the member states of the European Union. Questions remain, however, as to whether it is possible to...

We examine the impact of two important non-tariff measures presumed to simultaneously affect firms’ decisions to export to the European Union (EU). As a novelty to the literature, we analyse the impacts of EU pesticide standards on African exports alongside a complementary non-tariff measure...

The paper considers a one-to-one matching with contracts model in the presence of price controls. This set-up contains two important streams in the matching literature, those with and those without monetary transfers, as special cases and allows for intermediate cases with some restrictions on...

This paper studies the effects of price regulation and parallel imports in the on-patent pharmaceutical market. In a theory model where the producer price is subject to bargaining between the brand-name producer and a distributor, we show that the effects of stricter price regulation crucially...

The massive increase of property prices in some regions of Germany is a direct consequence of the ongoing financial and debt crisis. Low interest rates and high inflation expectations increase the demand for real estate. In addition to a potential price bubble risk, social problems arouse more...

Von den nationalen Regulierungsbehörden werden zwei Kostenmethoden zur Bestimmung der Terminierungsentgelte im Mobilfunkmarkt angewandt: Long-Run Incremental Costs (LRIC) und Kosten der effizienten Leistungsbereitstellung (KeL). Der Autor ist der Auffassung, dass der von der Europäischen...

This paper addresses to what extent governments have traded off price distortions for reduced volatility in intervening in agricultural and food markets during the recent food price spikes. We develop a model to derive how much distortions a government would introduce when it cares about...

Diese Studie zeigt, dass die Maximierung der sozialen Wohlfahrt, also die Verfügbarkeit von innovativen und günstigen Produkten in Europa, durch eine Korrektur der tatsächlichen Abgabepreise in anderen Ländern gemäß der wirtschaftlichen Leistungsfähigkeit [und nicht nur des Preisniveaus]...