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Does privatisation of vocational rehabilitation improve labour market opportunities? Evidence from a field experiment in Sweden
Jönsson, Lisa; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2012
Agency in Sweden during 2008 to 2010, in which over 4,000 participants were randomly offered private and public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321163
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Effects of contracting out employment services: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Bennmarker, Helge; Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn - 2012
In many countries welfare services that traditionally have been provided by the public sector are being contracted out to private providers. But are private contractors better at providing these services? We use a randomized experiment to empirically assess the effectiveness of contracting out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321375
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A network model of price dispersion
Pasini, Giacomo; Pin, Paolo; Weidenholzer, Simon - 2008
We analyze a model of price competition á la Bertrand in a network environment. Firms only have a limited information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270965
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Uncertain demand, consumer loss aversion, and flat-rate tariffs
Herweg, Fabian; Mierendorff, Konrad - 2011
We consider a model of firm pricing and consumer choice, where consumers are loss averse and uncertain about their future demand. Possibly, consumers in our model prefer a flat rate to a measured tariff, even though this choice does not minimize their expected billing amount - a behavior in line...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316924
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Income differences and prices of tradables
Simonovska, Ina - 2010
This paper presents novel evidence of price discrimination, using prices of identical goods in 28 countries. I explain … variable mark-ups account for 80% of the positive price-income relationship across 123 countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282116
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Municipal Waste Selection and Disposal: Evidences from Lombardy
Silvestri, Francesco; Ghinoi, Stefano - 2015
This article exploit a data base of 1.522 observations related to Lombardy's municipalities to run a cross sectional estimation of the drivers of MW selection. We find no evidence of a significant correlation between the percentage of selected MW selection and market variables such as the unit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307251
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Regulation at home, competition abroad: A theoretical framework
Calzolari, Giacomo; Scarpa, Carlo - 2001
This paper analyses in a hidden characteristic set-up the design of the optimal price for a firm which is a monopolist … at home but competes abroad against foreign firms. As long as diseconomies of scope are not too strong, the optimal price … is identified. The price rule depends on the sign of the technological relationship between home output and foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608801
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Restructuring Italian Utility Markets: Household Distributional Effects
Valbonesi, Paola; Miniaci, Raffaele; Scarpa, Carlo - 2005
Competition in public utility sectors has been encouraged in recent years throughout Europe. In this paper we try and analyse the welfare effects of these reforms in Italy, with particular attention to water and energy goods. The first step is to introduce a sensible measure of affordability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312543
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The effects of a refinery on property values: The case of Sweden
Winstrand, Jakob - 2009
coast, on house values in the surrounding area. To carry out the analysis a spatial hedonic house price model was applied to … price elasticity with respect to distance in the direction the prevailing wind blows is 0.071 and 0.162 in the opposite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321460
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Privatisation and renationalisation: What went wrong in Bolivia's water sector?
Hailu, Degol; Osório, Rafael Guerreiro; Tsukada, Raquel - 2009
This paper investigates the concentration of access to safe water across income levels in Bolivia. In particular, it focuses on how privatisation has changed coverage, affordability and the concentration of access to water on the part of the poor. We compare the performance of cities in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293309