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Vertical Fiscal Externalities and the Environment
Böhringer, Christoph - 2014
federation, we show that vertical fiscal externalities can be the major determinant of the welfare change following environmental … externalities -- state governments can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by over 20 percent without any net cost to themselves …
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316565
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Optimal Higher Education Enrollment and Productivity Externalities in a Two-Sector Model
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana C. - 2021
We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each … acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the … stages of development witness under enrollment in higher education, while highly developed economies experience over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315884
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Public Goods Provision with Rent-Extracting Administrators
Cagala, Tobias - 2018
This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927572
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Public-Private Partnership and Schooling Outcomes Across Countries
Woessmann, Ludger - 2006
The paper provides a comparative analysis of the association between student achievement and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in schooling across countries. Student-level data from the PISA international achievement test provides information on the public-private character of both operation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780559
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Social Capital and the Status Externality
Itaya, Jun-ichi - 2018
This paper investigates how the presence of social capital affects the externality arising from status-seeking preference as a parable for inefficient antagonistic behavior. It is assumed that the stock of social capital is accumulating through joint social interaction between rational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927000
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External Influence as an Indicator of Scholarly Importance
Chan, Ho Fai - 2013
The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075968
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Divided Government Versus Incumbency Externality Effect - Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Multiple Voting Decisions
Ade, Florian - 2012
This paper explores the interdependency of political institutions from the voter's perspective. Specifically, we are interested in: Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election?; Does this partisan identity influence the vote in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112896
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Ex-Post Redistribution in a Federation : Implications for Corrective Policy
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2006
This paper analyzes whether changes in the timing of equalizing transfers to state governments necessitate an adjustment in federal corrective policy. According to the existing literature (assuming an ex-ante choice of transfers), the corrective grant is equal to the marginal damage/benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779700
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Electoral Externalities in Federations - Evidence from German Opinion Polls
Frei, Xenia - 2017
dynamics and vice versa (electoral externalities). We quantify the extent of simultaneous electoral externalities between two … vice versa. Externalities account for around 10% to 30% of variation at the other level of government. The effects differ … across parties. Electoral externalities are less pronounced for the conservative party, but increase in times of government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960098