Der Bestattungsmarkt in Deutschland

Daumann Frank () and Breuer Markus
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Daumann Frank: Sportökonomie, Institut für Sportwissenschaft, Friedrich- Schiller-Universität Jena, Seidelstraße 20, D-07749 Jena

Review of Economics, 2009, vol. 60, issue 3, 227-253

Abstract: Despite its market volume of more than four billion EUR p. a. (in Germany) the market for funerals has been disregarded by economists so far. Nevertheless a burial is a high complex product involving not only an undertaker and a cemetery but also several other market actors like stone cutters, crematories and public authorities. Indeed, the providers find themselves in different market forms like a wide oligopoly in the case of funeral homes or a regional monopoly in the case of cemeteries. The abolition of legal conditions, changes in the individual way of life (e. g. a minor concentration on afterlife) and the consequences of the global financial crisis led to several changes and innovations in the market within the last years: E. g. caskets made of paper, an increasing market share of cremation in Germany and discount-funerals can be noticed. For the future we estimate a different role of the mortician. As the central protagonist he might become some kind of ‘manager’ being responsible for the complete funeral and acting as a grief counsellor for the surviving members of the family.

Date: 2009
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