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Competition in the provision of local public goods : single function jurisdictions and individual choice
Petermann Reifschneider, Alexandra - 2006
The central purpose of this book is to analyse the optimal allocation of local public goods or services (for example … garbage collection, police, fire brigades and medical services) in large urban agglomerations and the allocation consequences … jurisdictions and the impact this probable increase in competition may have on the achievement of the optimal allocation of local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851526
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Path dependence and lock-in
Liebowitz, Stanley Jason - 2014
Review, 94 (2), June, 251-67 -- James Mahoney (2000), 'Path Dependence in Historical Sociology', Theory and Society, 29 (4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852185
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Fiscal policy and environmental welfare : modelling interjurisdictional competition
Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten - 1998 - Revised version of the author's thesis
In this innovative book the author examines the link between environmental, trade and industrial policies within an interregional setting. He models how regional governments, using tax rates on real capital and pollutant emissions, determine policies to favour their residents in terms of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473840
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Contingent valuation and endangered species : methodological issues and applications
Jakobsson, Kristin M.; Dragun, Andrew K. - 1996
Contingent Valuation and Endangered Species provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the contingent valuation method as applied to the profound social problem of biodiversity conservation. The contingent valuation method allows the explicit identification and valuation of the non-use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473918
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Advancing public goods
Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - Cournot Centre for Economic Studies <Paris, France)> / … - 2006
The studies cover topics in the conceptualization, classification and stratification of public goods. Also examined are public institutional design, global economic institutions and partnership typologies. Individual papers address the financing, regulatory, organizational and legal aspects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850891
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Modelling the composition of government expenditure
Creedy, John - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851401
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Economic rights and environmental wrongs : property rights for the common good
Devlin, Rose Anne - 1998
The crisis of environmental degradation has createcharemd an immense volume of literature which focuses on controlling environmental problems. Economic Rights and Environmental Wrongs goes one step further to extend and complement the current debates
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851479
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Public goods, redistribution and rent seeking
Tullock, Gordon - 2005
1. Some difficulties in the existing theory of externalities -- 2. Coase and all that -- 3. More on why government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420087
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Recent developments in public finance
Tanzi, Vito - 2011
Estevadeordal, Brian Frantz and Tam Robert Nguyen (eds), Regional Public Goods: From Theory to Practice, Chapter 1, Washington, DC …, Real Tax Revenue, and the Case for Inflationary Finance: Theory with an Application to Argentina', International Monetary … the Choice of Market Versus Nonmarket Allocation', in Robert H. Haveman and Julius Margolis (eds), Public Expenditure and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852288
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The economics of non-selfish behaviour : decisions to contribute money to public goods
Meier, Stephan - 2006
In standard economic theory human beings are portrayed as selfish money-maximizing actors. This book investigates the … contribute and draws conclusions on how the empirical findings influence economic theory and policy. Academic economists …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474014