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Old and New Theories of Fiscal Federalism, Organizational Design Problems, and Tiebout

Garzarelli, Giampaolo - EconWPA - 2005

motivations in support of federalism, namely, incentives and knowledge. Second, it succinctly discusses the incentive … rests on a knowledge motivation. The underlying theme is that the SGT should include both the incentive and knowledge …

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Judgment aggregation by quota rules

Dietrich, Franz; List, Christian - EconWPA - 2005

It is known that majority voting among several individuals on logically interconnected propositions may generate irrational collective judgments. We generalize majority voting by considering quota rules, which accept each proposition if and only if the number of individuals accepting it exceeds...

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Discrete Public goods with incomplete information.

Menezes, Flavio; Monteiro, Paulo Klinger; Temimi, Akram - EconWPA - 1999

We analyze simultaneous discrete public good games with incomplete information and continuous contributions. To use the terminology of Admati and Perry (1991), we consider contribution and subscription games. In the former, contributions are not refunded if the project is not completed, while in...

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Decision making pattern of subsistence farmers in Bulgaria

Mishev, Plamen; Kostov, Philip - EconWPA - 2004

Economic research by and large is dominated by a ‘rationality’ paradigm. Economic decision making within this paradigm is viewed as a maximising procedure. In general the latter represents the decision-making as a choice amongst a well defined set of alternatives. In this paper we question...

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Information Structure and Behaviour of a Textile Industrial District

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

This article presents a model of the structure of the information flows that underlie the creation of production chains between thousands of small textile firms located in Prato, central Italy. Contrary to most textile industry of western Europe and north America, Prato did not die out once...

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The possibility of judgment aggregation for network agendas

Dietrich, Franz - EconWPA - 2005

Within social choice theory, the new field of judgment aggregation aims at reaching collective judgments on a set of logically interconnected propositions. I investigate decision problems, in which the agenda is a network, composed of atomic propositions and connection rules between them....

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Candidate Quality

Poutvaara, Panu; Takalo, Tuomas - EconWPA - 2004

We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with ability differences, informative campaigning and political parties....

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A Cognitive Model of the Learning Curve

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

This article provides a cognitive foundation of the parameters that regulate a model of the learning curve. Organizational learning and its actual occurrence are linked to the number of available categories and to the amount of information to be processed.

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Wissensmanagement und Controlling: Eine Forschungsperspektive? [Engl.: Knowledge Management and Management Control Systems: A New Research Field?]

Kunz, Jennifer; Linder, Stefan - EconWPA - 2005

GERMAN ABSTRACT: Wissensmanagement und Controlling werden seit Jahrzehnten parallel in der betriebswirt … hat zum Ziel, diese Schnittstelle anhand des beiden Bereichen gemeinsamen Forschungsobjektes unternehmensrelevantes Wissen … Vergütungssystemen und Kennzahlensystemen in diesem Schnittstellenbereich vorgenommen. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Knowledge management and …

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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 … distribution of knowledge diffusion. We will show how these factors can be classified as follow: (1) learning strategies adopted by … their relative initial levels of knowledge. We shall also attempt to single out the relative effect of each of the above …

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