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Enhancing the Efficiency of Water Supply – Product Market Competition versus Trade
Foellmi, Reto; Meister, Urs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In most developed countries, the provision of water is organized at a local level. The costs and tariffs vary … significantly, even between adjacent water utilities. Such heterogeneity is an obvious indication of the sector’s overall … inefficiency and stresses a need for institutional adjustments. We show that cooperation by water trade and the introduction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493560
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Making A Difference
Francois, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Despite the potential for free-riding, workers motivated by `making a difference' to the mission or output of an establishment may donate labour to it. When the establishment uses performance related compensation (PRC), these labour donations closely resemble a standard private provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662127
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Making A Difference
Francois, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Despite the potential for free-riding, workers motivated by ‘making a difference’ to the mission or output of an establishment may donate labour to it. When the establishment uses performance related compensation (PRC), these labour donations closely resemble a standard private provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792389
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Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform
Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
, cushioning people against economic risk, ensuring efficient provision of health and education services, providing social safety …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661484
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Migration, Congestion Externalities, and the Evaluation of Spatial Investments
Dinkelman, Taryn; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Evaluations of new infrastructure in developing countries typically focus on direct effects, such as the impact of an electrifification program on household energy use. But if new infrastructure induces people to move into an area, other local publicly provided goods may become congested,...
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Legal vs Ownership Unbundling in Network Industries
Cremer, Helmuth; Crémer, Jacques; De Donder, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper studies the impact of legal unbundling vs ownership unbundling on the incentives of a network operator to invest and maintain its assets. We consider an industry where the upstream firm first chooses the size of a network, while several downstream firms then compete in selling goods...
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Consolidating the Water Industry: An Analysis of the Potential Gains from Horizontal Integration in a Conditional Efficiency Framework
Zschille, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The German potable water supply industry is regarded as being highly fragmented, thus inhibiting high potentials for … Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to analyze the potential efficiency gains from mergers between water utilities at the county level. A … improve incentives for efficient operations in water supply and a consolidation of the industry structure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083827
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Soaring Minds: The Flight of Israel’s Economists
Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Despite their small number, Israeli economists have become an important fixture in the international academic scene. In recent years, this phenomenon has been characterized by an additional attribute: the number of Israelis who have chosen to leave the country’s universities - or not to return...
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Ranking Israel's Economists
Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
One of the more important measures of a scholar’s research impact is the number of times that the scholar’s work is cited by other researchers as a source of knowledge. This paper conducts a first of its kind examination on Israel’s academic economists and economics departments, ranking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498083
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Brain Drained: A Tale of Two Countries
Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper provides a comparative examination of how public universities in two countries, the United States and Israel, have evolved over the past few decades - and how differences between the two have culminated in a rate of academic brain drain from the latter to the former that is...
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