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To Be or Not To Be in Office Again: Political Business Cycles with Local Governments

Baleiras, Rui Nuno; Costa, José da Silva - EconWPA - 2003

Most opportunistic-type models of political business cycles tend to posit a given objective for incumbents: maximisation of re-election chances. Though taking an opportunistic view too, we suggest a new explanation for a fiscal policy cycle: the incumbent’s concern with her own welfare in...

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Do public sector reforms get rusty? An empirical analysis on privatization of solid waste collection

Bel, Germa; Costas, Anton - EconWPA - 2004

Recent empirical evidence, from countries in the European Union in particular, are much more ambiguous on the costs savings from private production of local public services than previous literature used to be. In this paper, an explanatory model of factors driving costs in solid waste collection...

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Collusion in the Dutch waste collection market

Dijkgraaf, E.; Gradus, R. H. J. M. - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we analyse whether collusion exists in the Dutch waste collection market, which shows a high degree of concentration. Although scale effects might be in accordance with this market outcome, the question is whether this concentration is in fact a result of fair competition. Using...

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Curbing Excess Sprawl with Congestion Tolls and Urban Boundaries

Anas, Alex; Rhee, Hyok-Joo - EconWPA - 2004

Using an urban land use model in which jobs and residences are spatially dispersed and mixed, we treat the general equilibrium of land, labor and product markets and the trade-off between labor supply, commuting and discretionary travel. We show that the decentralization of population and of...

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Regional Variation in Rental Costsfor Larger Households

Grimes, Arthur; Sourell, Robert; Aitken, Andrew - EconWPA - 2005

Housing costs comprise a major part of most household budgets. Larger households require greater space than do smaller households but do not necessarily have larger incomes. The cost of extra housing space (e.g. the cost of an extra bedroom) may vary across different locations, both absolutely...

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A Laboratory Experiment of Knowledge Diffusion Dynamics

Morone, Piergiuseppe; Taylor, Richard - EconWPA - 2004

dominate the phenomenon of knowledge diffusion in the process that is called ‘interactive learning’. We examine how knowledge … spreads in different networks in which agents interact by word of mouth. We define a regular network, a randomly generated … network and a small world network structured as graphs consisting of agents (vertices) and connections (edges), situated on a …

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Networks and market laws

Quesada, Antonio - EconWPA - 2004

set and in the buyers’ reservation prices are established in a simple network model of a market. …

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Equilibrium in a Distribution Network

Mullat, Joseph - EconWPA - 2001

A network consisting of suppliers, agents, and distributors is considered. The flow of orders and deliveries between … the different elements are determined. A monotonic game for the customers in the network is described. …

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A Game Theoretic Approach to Computer Science: Survey and Research Directions

GALLO, Crescenzio - EconWPA - 2005

Theoretical Computer Science classically aimed to develop a mathematical understanding of capabilities and limits of traditional computing architecture (Boole, von Neuman, Turing, Church, Godel), investigating in computability, complexity theory and algorithmics. Now it seems more natural to...

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Decentralized Investment and Quality Decisions In Common-Pool Networks

Abdala, Manuel A.; Spiller, Pablo T. - EconWPA - 2005

(either a monopoly or a regulator). In network systems where competition has flourished, decentralized solutions work better … examples show how decentralized mechanisms may develop throughout network utilities. …

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