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State Capacity and Military Conflict
Gennaioli, Nicola; Voth, Hans-Joachim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In 1500, Europe was composed of hundreds of statelets and principalities, with weak central authority, no monopoly over the legitimate use of violence, and multiple, overlapping levels of jurisdiction. By 1800, Europe had consolidated into a handful of powerful, centralized nation states. We...
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What is the Domain of the Welfare State?
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...
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What Should we Expect from Innovation? A Model-Based Assessment of the Environmental and Mitigation Cost Implications of Climate-Related R&D
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies complement carbon pricing (taxes or permit trading) and...
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Guide to Reform of Higher Education: A European Perspective
Jacobs, Bas; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Although there are exceptions, most European universities and institutions of higher education find it difficult to compete with the best universities in the Anglo-Saxon world. Despite the Bologna agreement and the ambitions of the Lisbon agenda, European universities are in need of fundamental...
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Excesses and Limits of the Public Sector in the Italian Economy. The Ongoing Reform
Schioppa, Padoa; Kostoris, Fiorella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper provides factual evidence on the extent of public intervention in the Italian economy. It further illustrates the internal contradictions and weaknesses of public action in Italy. New policy proposals to solve old structural problems of the Bel Paese are then discussed. Among them, a...
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Social background, education and inequality
Andersen, Torben M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
cumulative effect over time increasing (decreasing) the share of skilled further. Active and passive means of redistribution thus … differ both in the impact and long-run effects. Passive redistribution benefits non-skilled on impact but increases their … share over time, while active redistribution does not benefit the non-skilled on impact (but their children) but leads to …
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Impure Prosocial Motivation in Charity Provision: Warm-Glow Charities and Implications for Public Funding
Scharf, Kimberley - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non-verifiable. Government funding arrangements, on the other...
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Baumol’s cost disease and the sustainability of the welfare state
Andersen, Torben M; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
If productivity increases more slowly for services than for manufactured goods, then services suffer from Baumol’s cost disease and tend to become relatively more costly over time. Since the welfare state in all countries is an important supplier of tax financed services, this translates into...
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The Burden and Disincentive Effects of Hungarian Personal Taxes 1988-96
Newbery, David M G; Revesz, Tamas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
The paper analyses the revenue-raising, distributional and incentive effects of the personal tax system in Hungary from the start of the transitional tax reforms of 1988, and develops methods for estimating marginal indirect taxes. It evaluates the distributional impact of revenue-neutral...
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Intergenerational Redistribution with Short-lived Governments
Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
We study the politics of intergenerational redistribution in an overlapping-generations model with short …
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