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Why Not in Your Backyard? On the Location and Size of a Public Facility
Bellettini, Giorgio; Kempf, Hubert - 2021
In this paper, we tackle the issue of locating a public facility which provides a public good in a closed and populated territory. This facility generates differentiated benefits to neighborhoods depending on their distance from it. In the case of a Nimby facility, the smaller is the distance,...
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Image Concerns and the Political Economy of Publicly Provided Private Goods
König, Tobias - 2017
Governments often provide their citizens with goods and services that are also supplied in markets: education, housing, nutritional assistance, etc. We analyze the political economy of the public provision of private goods when individuals care about their social image. We show that image...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962915
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Electoral Competition with Rationally Inattentive Voters
Matějka, Filip - 2016
How do voters allocate costly attention to alternative political issues? And how does selective ignorance of voters interact with policy design by politicians? We address these questions by developing a model of electoral competition with rationally inattentive voters. Rational inattention...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993102
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Social Ideology and Taxes in a Differentiated Candidates Framework
Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - 2021
How does ideological polarization on non-economic matters influence the size of government? We analyze this question using a differentiated candidates framework: Two office-motivated candidates differ in their (fixed) ideological position and their production function for public goods, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315995
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The Impact of Referendums on the Centralisation of Public Goods Provision : A Political Economy Approach
Schnellenbach, Jan; Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2021
The paper compares decision-making on the centralisation of public goods provision in the presence of regional externalities under representative and direct democratic institutions. A model with two regions, two public goods and regional spillovers is developed in which uncertainty over the true...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317425
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Tipping versus Cooperating to Supply a Public Good
Barrett, Scott - 2015
In some important multi-player situations, such as efforts to supply a global public good, players can choose the game they want to play. In this paper we conduct an experimental test of the decision to choose between a “tipping” game, in which every player wants to contribute to the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024669
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Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition
Chander, Parkash; Drèze, Jacques H.; Lovell, C. Knox; … - 2006
The 22 papers in this volume illustrate the itinerary of Henry Tulkens on the occasion of his retirement from teaching. The volume presents contemporary analysis of Tulkens' classic papers on public sector economics. The collection is structured in four parts: I. Decentralized resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520614
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Economics and Computation : An Introduction to Algorithmic Game Theory, Computational Social Choice, and Fair Division
Rothe, Jörg (ed.) - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016
theory, computational social choice, and fair division. It thus offers an interdisciplinary treatment of collective decision … making from an economic and computational perspective. Part I introduces to algorithmic game theory, focusing on both … noncooperative and cooperative game theory. Part II introduces to computational social choice, focusing on both preference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397920
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Copyright Versus Open Access : On the Organisation and International Political Economy of Access to Scientific Knowledge
Scheufen, Marc - 2015
This book addresses the recent debate about copyright law and its impact on the distribution of scientific knowledge from an economic perspective. The focus is on the question whether a copyright regime or an open access regime is better suited to the norms and organizational structure in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012402001
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Strategic Social Choice : Stable Representations of Constitutions
Peleg, Bezalel - 2010
Representations of constitutions -- to Part I -- Constitutions, effectivity functions, and game forms -- Nash consistent representations -- Acceptable representations -- Strongly consistent representations -- Nash consistent representation through lottery models -- On the continuity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013522843