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Competition in Public Service Provision : The Role of Not-for-Profit Providers
Besley, Timothy J. - 2018
developing a novel approach to competition between different organizational forms, it frames the relevant trade-offs precisely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929480
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Hospital Competition with Soft Budgets
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2013
We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i.e., the payer may cover deficits or confiscate surpluses. The basic set up is a Hotelling model with two hospitals that differ in location and face demand uncertainty, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087727
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Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2010
We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect … of (i) introducing competition (monopoly versus competition) and (ii) increasing competition through lower transportation … structure, we show that the relationship between competition and quality is generally ambiguous. In contrast to the received …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152862
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Coordinating Climate and Trade Policies : Pareto Efficiency and the Role of Border Tax Adjustments
Keen, Michael - 2011
This paper explores the role of trade instruments in globally efficient climate policies, focusing on the central issue of whether border tax adjustment (BTA) is warranted when carbon prices differ internationally. It shows that tariff policy has a role in easing cross-country distributional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123211
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Icebergs Versus Tariffs : A Quantitative Perspective on the Gains from Trade
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2013
Recent quantitative trade models treat import tariffs as pure cost shifters so that their effects are similar to iceberg trade costs. We introduce revenue-generating import tariffs, which act as demand shifters, into the framework of Arkolakis, Costinot and Rodriguez-Clare (2012), and generalize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083872
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Trade Tariffs and Self-Enforcing Environmental Agreements
Eichner, Thomas - 2013
In the basic model of international environmental agreements (IEAs) (Barrett 1994, Rubio and Ulph 2006) extended by international trade, self-enforcing - or stable - IEAs may comprise up to 60% of all countries (Eichner and Pethig 2013). But these IEAs reduce total emissions only slightly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072517
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Market Access through Bound Tariffs
Sala, Davide - 2009
WTO negotiations deal predominantly with bound - besides applied - tariff rates. But, how can reductions in tariffs ceilings, i.e. tariff rates that no exporter may ever actually be confronted with, generate market access? The answer to this question relates to the effects of tariff bindings on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153424
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Trade, Luxury Goods and a Growth Enhancing Tariff
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2016
This article presents a Ricardian model of trade with learning-by-doing to study the effect of barriers to trade in products with low growth potential on the long-run economic growth. The model shows that, when elasticity of demand for the product with a lower learning potential is greater than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987335
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Impure Prosocial Motivation in Charity Provision : Warm-Glow Charities and Implications for Public Funding
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2013
We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non-verifiable. Government funding arrangements, on the other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072503
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Are Donors Afraid of Charities' Core Costs? Scale Economies in Non-Profit Provision and Charity Selection
Perroni, Carlo - 2015
through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, in the non-profit case the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031990