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Flexible Citizenship for a Global Society

Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

States are ill equipped to meet the challenges of a globalized world. The concept of citizenship with its rights and obligations, including the allegiance owed, is too narrowly defined to exist only between individuals and a state. Today, people identify with, and pay allegiance to, many...

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Psychological Foundations of Incentives

Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose of this paper is to show that this narrow view of...

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A Proposal for a Flexible Europe

Frey, Bruno S.; Eichenberger, Reiner - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

At present, new EU-members have to fully accept the "acquis communautaire" even if their economic and institutional development differs drastically from the EU-average. In contrast, we propose that there should be the possibility of partial entry into the EU. East European Countries should have...

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A Utopia? Government Without Territorial Monopoly

Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

We normally take it for granted: a government or state has its corresponding territory. This paper shows that government need not have a territorial monopoly. The paper advances a practical, constitutional proposal, based on the notion that there are meaningful government units, whose major...

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Direct Democracy: Designing a Living Constitution

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

A crucial aspect of constitutional design is the provision of rules on how a constitution is to be amended. If procedures for constitutional amendment are very restrictive, changes will take place outside the constitution. These changes are likely to be against the citizens' interests and their...

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Leadership and influence: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision

Giovanna d’Adda - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012

This paper studies the effect of leadership on the level and evolution of pro-social behavior using an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision. Participants decide how much to contribute to an actual conservation project. They can then revise their donations after being...

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Homo Oeconomicus Versus Homo Reciprocans: Ansätze für ein Neues Wirtschaftspolitisches Leitbild?

Falk, Armin - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

Politik und öffentliches Bewusstsein werden zunehmend durch ökonomische Theorien und Handlungsvorschläge mitbestimmt. Kaum ein anderes erkenntnis- und handlungsleitendes Modell hat daher einen vergleichbaren Einfluss wie das Konzept des Homo Oeconomicus. Durch die Entwicklung experimenteller...

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To React or Not? Fiscal Policy, Volatility and Welfare in the EU-3

Malley, Jim; Philippopoulos, Apostolis; Woitek, Ulrich - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2007

This paper develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to examine the quantitative macroeconomic implications of counter- cyclical fiscal policy for France, Germany and the UK. The model incorporates real wage rigidity which is the particular market failure justifying policy...

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Did we Overestimat the Value of Health?

Lalive, Rafael - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

Adam Smith's idea that wage differences reveal preferences for risk rests on firm theoretical foundations. This paper argues, however, that the standard approach to identify these differentials in practice may be flawed. Empirical practice usually identifies compensating wage differentials for...

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Does Supporting Passenger Railways Reduce Road Traffic Externalities?

Lalive, Rafael; Luechinger, Simon; Schmutzler, Armin - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2013

Many governments subsidize regional rail service as an alternative to road traffic. This paper assesses whether … increases in service frequency reduce road traffic externalities. We exploit differences in service frequency growth by … reduce the number of severe road traffic accidents, carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide pollution and infant …

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