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Efficiency and Equity of European Education and Training Policies
Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2006
This paper reviews empirical evidence, especially from Europe, on how education and training policies can be designed … to advance both efficiency and equity. Returns to educational investments tend to decrease over the life cycle. Moreover … life cycle. This creates complementarities between efficiency and equity at early stages and trade-offs at late stages. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094505
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The Swiss UMTS Spectrum Auction Flop: Bad Luck or Bad Design
Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - CESifo - 2001
in Europe, of which Switzerland is just one particularly pronounced example. The regulator would have been better advised …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766272
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The Third Generation (UMTS) Spectrum Auction in Germany
Grimm, Veronika; Riedel, Frank; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - CESifo - 2001
competitive market structure than other UMTS auctions in Europe. The present paper explains the design of that auction, and … was predominantly employed in Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094495
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Low Price Equilibrium in Multi-Unit Auctions: The GSM Spectrum Auction in Germany
Grimm, Veronika; Riedel, Frank; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - CESifo - 2001
The second-generation GSM spectrum auction in Germany is probably the most clear cut example of a low price outcome in a simultaneous ascending-bid auction.The present paper gives an account of the events, describes the auction rules and market conditions, and provides a theoretical explanation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181274
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Taxation in Two-Sided Markets
Kind, Hans Jarle; Koethenbuerger, Marko; Schjelderup, … - CESifo - 2006
Two-sided platform firms serve distinct customer groups that are connected through interdependent demand, and include major businesses such as the media industry, banking, and the software industry. A well known textbook result in one-sided markets is that a government may increase a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196255
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Policy Persistence and Rent Extraction
Friedrich, Silke - CESifo - 2013
The existing literature has shown that special interest groups can have both growth enhancing and retarding effects on an economy. In either case it is always assumed that the nature of the special interest groups remains constant over time. The hypothesis of this paper is that a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877655
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Centralized Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions
Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin Mattias - CESifo - 2013
decreasing efficiency, which becomes more severe as the centralized budget increases. We also analyze partial ex-ante commitment … through alternative decision-making institutions: Both majority rule and exogenous tax rules can improve efficiency. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877969
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Battle for Climate and Scarcity Rents: Beyond the Linear-Quadratic Case
Kagan, Mark; Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Withagen, Cees A. - CESifo - 2014
The nature of oil demand influences the oil extraction rate and hence has implications for both the timing of oil exhaustion and optimal climate policy. We analyse what role oil demand specification plays in strategic interactions b between an oil-importing country producing final goods and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264740
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Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency
Gautier, Pieter A.; Holzner, Christian - CESifo - 2011
When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise if workers do not know where other workers apply to (this affects network creation) and firms do not know which candidates other firms consider (this affects network clearing). We show that those frictions and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009221551
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Are User Fees Really Regressive?
Economides, George; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - CESifo - 2012
by the Ramsey government not only increases aggregate efficiency, but it also decreases inequality. This result is in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556462