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Incentive Schemes for Local Government : Theory and Evidence from Comprehensive Performance Assessment in England
Lockwood, Ben - 2011
This paper studies Comprehensive Performance Assessment, an explicit incentive scheme for local government in England. Motivated by a simple theoretical political agency model, we predict that CPA should increase service quality and local taxation, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124097
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Does Long-Term Care Subsidisation Reduce Unnecessary Hospitalisations?
Costa-Font, Joan - 2017
One of the intended effects of an integrated network of long-term care (LTC) services lies in the reduction of (unnecessary) health care utilisation. This paper draws upon the quasi-experimental evidence from Spain to examine the causal effect of the expansion of affordable long-term care (LTC)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967685
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Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits
Launov, Andrey - 2010
The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits displays a time-varying exit rate. Building on Semi-Markov processes, we translate these exit rates into an expression for the aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142487
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Application of Regionally Varying Additionality Degrees in the Practice of EU Cohesion Policy
Nam, Chang Woon; Wamser, Georg - CESifo - 2010
The additionality principle says that the funds of the European Union should not replace, but be an addition to … study examines how such additionality degrees are determined. Our findings indicate that the regional variation of … additionality degrees is largely in line with EU cohesion policy goals. Most notably, higher shares of EU funds are provided to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534011
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Economic Land Use, Ecosystem Services and Microfounded Species Dynamics
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2004
In an integrated economy-ecosystem model humans choose their land use and leave the residual land as habitat for three species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity generates, in turn, a flow of ecosystem services with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405887
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Pricing the Ecosystem and Taxing Ecosystem Services: A General Equilibrium Approach
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2007
internalize consumption services externalities. In the case of an open access habitat additional sources of inefficiency are the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405951
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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
state policy incentives twofold. It entails a correction for thedistortion in the marginal benefit of state spending (as in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779700