Search Results - subject:"public goods"

Provision of public goods and bads by agriculture and forestry : an analysis of stakeholders' perception of factors, issues and mechanisms

Targetti, Stefano; Marconi, Valentina; Raggi, Meri; … - In: Bio-based and applied economics 11 (2022) 4, pp. 351-371

The provision of public goods by agriculture and forestry has been a major topic of the agricultural policy debate in … between agriculture and forestry activities and a broad set of public goods and bads, and hence to contribute to the … identification of improved policy options for a more efficient delivery of public goods from rural areas. The study presents an …

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Collective minimum contributions to counteract the ratchet effect in the voluntary provision of public goods

Alt, Marius; Gallier, Carlo; Kesternich, Martin; Sturm, Bodo - 2022 - This version: November, 2022

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Motivate the Crowd or Crowd-Them Out? The Impact of Local Government Spending on the Voluntary Provision of a Green Public Good

Bartels, Lara; Kesternich, Martin - 2022

Cities are increasingly hold accountable for climate action. By demonstrating their pro-environmentality through own climate-related activities, they not at least aspire to encourage individual climate protection efforts. Based on standard economic theory there is little reason to assume that...

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The international political economy of patent buyouts

Ahmad, Amal; Naeher, Dominik; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022

The literature on patent buyouts has focused on single-economy settings, where buyouts are welfare improving relative to patents unless there are frictions such as imperfect information or commitment problems. We expand the analysis to a world with two heterogeneous countries featuring different...

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Self-nudging vs. social nudging in social dilemmas : an experiment

Diederich, Johannes; Goeschl, Timo; Waichman, Israel - 2022

The exogenous manipulation of choice architectures to achieve social ends ('social nudges') can raise problems of effectiveness and ethicality because it favors group outcomes over individual outcomes. One answer is to give individuals control over their nudge ('self-nudge'), but the trade-offs...

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Regional deprivation and populism : evidence from Germany and the U.S.

Bayerlein, Michael - 2022

of public goods scarcity. I argue that the spatial inequality induced feeling of being left behind is positively … correlated with populist voting and that this effect is mitigated by public goods provision. Using county level data to develop … deprivation as well as public goods provision. …

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Motivate the crowd or crowd- them out? : the impact of local government spending on the voluntary provision of a green public good

Bartels, Lara; Kesternich, Martin - 2022

Cities are increasingly hold accountable for climate action. By demonstrating their proenvironmentality through own climate-related activities, they not at least aspire to encourage individual climate protection efforts. Based on standard economic theory there is little reason to assume that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013399851

Collective minimum contributions to counteract the ratchet effect in the voluntary provision of public goods

Alt, Marius; Gallier, Carlo; Kesternich, Martin; Sturm, Bodo - 2022 - This version: November, 2022

and our results confirm that its effect is detrimental. We design a public goods game to study whether an amendment to the …

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Decentralizing Development: Evidence from Government Splits

Dahis, Ricardo; Szerman, Christiane - 2024

Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp variations in the number of government units in...

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Decentralizing Development: Evidence from Government Splits

Dahis, Ricardo; Szerman, Christiane - 2024

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