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The assignment of powers in an open-ended European Union

Salmon, Pierre - 2003

A major characteristic of the European Union is its transitional or evolving nature, in particular with regard to the assignment of powers between the two main levels of government. More precisely, under current constitutional arrangements, this evolving nature takes the form of an integration...

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Democratic mechanisms : double majority rules and flexible agenda costs

Gersbach, Hans - 2002

We introduce democratic mechanisms where individual utilities are not observable by other people at the legislative stage. We show that the combination of three rules can yield e±cient provision of public projects: first, flexible and double majority rules where the size of the majority depends...

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Constitution on ice

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2014

influence, let alone contest, a national referendum on a new constitution because, if they didn't like the result, they would …-sourced constitution bill from 2009 to 2014, and also offers an explanation as to why the bill failed to be passed by Parliament …

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Tax competition, capital mobility and public good provision within a trading block

Hadjiyiannis, Costas; Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Michael, … - 2001

We construct a general equilibrium model of a two-country trading block where governments through tax policies attract mobile capital, and provide an imported public consumption good. At Nash equilibrium, when the public good is under-provided, (i) a country with a large GDP, has a large Nash...

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The exploitation hypothesis in a public good economy : some extensions

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Sandler, Todd - 2016

Since Olson's (1965) The Logic of Collective Action, the exploitation hypothesis, in which the rich shoulders the provision burden of public goods for the poor, has held sway despite empirical exceptions. To address such exceptions, we establish two alternative exploitation hypotheses based on...

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Centralized fiscal spending by supranational unions

Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin - 2013 - This version: June 28, 2013

We study fiscal spending by supranational unions, where participation is voluntary and countries bargain over contributions to and the allocation of a central budget. We explore the link between the allocation and nations ́contributions that occurs since bargaining power is endogenous, and...

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Efficiency, welfare, and political competition

Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2014

-share-maximizers. They can propose any policy that is resource-feasible and incentive-compatible. They can also offer special favors to … hence first-best Pareto-efficient. Second, there is a surplus-maximizing policy that wins a majority against any welfare …-maximizing policy. Thus, in our model, policies that trade off equity and efficiency considerations are politically infeasible. …

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Members, joiners, free-riders, supporters

Ansink, Erik; Withagen, Cees - 2016

We augment the standard cartel formation game from non-cooperative coalition theory, often applied in the context of international environmental agreements on climate change, with the possibility that singletons support coalition formation without becoming coalition members themselves. Rather,...

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Information aggregation in democratic mechanisms

Britz, Volker; Gersbach, Hans - 2016 - This version: January 22, 2016

information can be aggregated and a socially desirable policy can be implemented under a new class of democratic mechanisms …

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Do norms on contribution behavior affect intrinsic motivation? : field-experimental evidence from Germany

Boyer, Pierre C.; Dwenger, Nadja; Rincke, Johannes - 2016

This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider the church levy, which the Catholic Church in Germany collects as a charitable donation, despite the fact that the levy is legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment...

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