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Decentralization and Natural Disasters
Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2013
This paper surveys recent research on decentralization and natural disasters. The first part discusses results from theoretical models that have been used to study the issues that arise when natural disasters occur in a country with more than one level of government. The next section discusses...
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On the many ways Europeanization matters: the implementation of the water reform in Italy (1994-2006)
Asquer, Alberto - 2009
The research agenda of Europeanization is currently highly focused on issued related to what accounts for the 'horizontal' interaction between domestic actors and how these actors make use of stimuli originating from the EU. This paper aims to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266013
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Does Data Disclosure Improve Local Government Performance? Evidence from Italian Municipalities
Lockwood, Ben; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela; … - 2022
We exploit the introduction of an open data online platform - part of a transparency program initiated by the Italian Government in late 2014 - as a natural experiment to analyse the effect of data disclosure on mayors' expenditure and public good provision. First, we analyse the effect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290065
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Does Data Disclosure Improve Local Government Performance? Evidence from Italian Municipalities
Lockwood, Ben; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela; … - 2022
We exploit the introduction of an open data online platform - part of a transparency program initiated by the Italian Government in late 2014 - as a natural experiment to analyse the effect of data disclosure on mayors’ expenditure and public good provision. First, we analyse the effect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264445
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Informal benchmarks as a source of regulatory threat in unregulated utility sectors
Söderberg, Magnus - 2010
This paper investigates to what extent unregulated local monopolies attempt not to evoke the introduction of a formal price regulation by conforming to customers' and authorities' expectations. It is argued that utilities can meet expectations by setting prices that imitate neighbours' prices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266107
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The impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity and medical expenditure in Sweden, 1997-2010: Evidence from longitudinal, disease-level data
Lichtenberg, Frank; Pettersson, Billie - 2012
expenditure in Sweden, where mean age at death increased by 1.88 years during the period 1997-2010. Pharmaceutical innovation is … utilization in Sweden, so the cost per life-year gained from the introduction of new drugs was quite low. …
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O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice in Four Countries
Altmejd, Adam - 2020
options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile, Sweden and Croatia that older siblings' college and major choices …
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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching
Orefice, Gianluca - 2020
The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838239
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Labor Market Effects of COVID-19 in Sweden and its Neighbors : Evidence from Novel Administrative Data
Juranek, Steffen - 2020
'), Sweden decided for much lighter restrictions. Empirically, we use novel administrative data on weekly new unemployment and … furlough spells from all 56 regions of the Nordic countries to compare the labor market outcomes of Sweden with the ones of its … neighbors. Our evidence suggests that the labor markets of all countries were severely hit by the pandemic, although Sweden …
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Long-Run Returns to Field Study in Secondary School
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2020
of study, but also an accounting of individuals' next-best alternatives. Our setting is Sweden, where at the end of ninth …
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