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Research Governance in Academia: Are there Alternatives to Academic Rankings?

Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2009

Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take explicitly or implicitly agency theory as a theoretical basis. The emerging psychological economics opens a new perspective. As scholarly research is a mainly curiosity driven...

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On the Political Economy of Complexity

Nitzan, Shmuel; Procaccia, Uriel; Tzur, Joseph - CESifo - 2013

Article underscores the dark side of both phenomena by focusing on the anti-competitive features of regulation and reform and …

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Prices vs. Quantities with Endogenous Cost Structure

Storrøsten, Halvor Briseid - CESifo - 2014

Authorities often lack information for efficient regulation of the commons. This paper derives a criterion comparing …

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Emissions Taxes and Abatement Regulation under Uncertainty

Christiansen, Vidar; Smith, Stephen - CESifo - 2013

We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of …

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Investment in Broadband Infrastructure Under Local Deregulation: Evidence from the U.K. Broadband Market

Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - CESifo - 2013

This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a...

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Green Havens and Pollution Havens

Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2012

country significantly attracts FDI. What is important for these pollution haven effects is not only regulation but also …

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Hurricane Insurance in Florida

Jametti, Mario; Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - CESifo - 2009

This paper studies the evolution of hurricane insurance in Florida over the last decades. Hurricanes (and other natural catastrophes) are typically referred to as “uninsurable” risks. The more exposed property owners find it difficult to obtain insurance cover from the private market and/or...

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Powering Up Developing Countries through Integration?

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - CESifo - 2012

Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...

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Labor Courts, Nomination Bias, and Unemployment in Germany

Berger, Helge; Neugart, Michael - CESifo - 2006

Labor courts play an important role in determining the effective level of labor market regulation in Germany, but their …

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Government Outsourcing: Public Contracting with Private Monopoly

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M. - CESifo - 2006

The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation …. The government maximizes total surplus but incurs some cost of public funds. An alternative to regulation is proposed in …-post with the private firms. This ex-post contracting set-up allows more flexibility than traditional regulation where …

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