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Management and performance in the public sector : evidence from German municipalities

Englmaier, Florian; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; … - 2022

We study management practices and performance of public sector organizations in Germany. For a representative sample of municipalities, we provide survey evidence for substantial het-erogeneity in the use of structured management practices. This heterogeneity is not driven by differences across...

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Does data disclosure improve local government performance? : evidence from Italian municipalities

Lockwood, Ben; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela; … - 2022

We exploit the introduction of an open data online platform - part of a transparency program initiated by the Italian Government in late 2014 - as a natural experiment to analyse the effect of data disclosure on mayors' expenditure and public good provision. First, we analyse the effect of the...

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Wealth inequality and homeownership in Europe

Kaas, Leo; Kocharkov, Georgi; Preugschat, Edgar - 2015

through housing wealth. …

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Quality of life in a dynamic spatial model

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Bald, Fabian; Roth, Duncan; … - 2020

We develop a dynamic spatial model in which heterogeneous workers are imperfectly mobile and forward-looking and yet all structural fundamentals can be inverted without assuming that the economy is in a stationary spatial equilibrium. Exploiting this novel feature of the model, we show that the...

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Intratemporal nonseparability between housing and nondurable consumption : evidence from reinvestment in housing stock

Khorunzhina, Natalia - 2019

Using the data on maintenance expenditures and self-assessed house value, I separate the measure of individual housing … stock and house prices, and use these data for testing whether nondurable consumption and housing are characterized by … nondurable consumption and housing. I reach a similar conclusion for some separate consumption categories, such as food and …

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Differences in euro-area household finances and their relevance for monetary-policy transmission

Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2018

-cycle incomplete-markets model with a liquid financial asset and illiquid housing to match the large heterogeneity of households asset …

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Tax housing or land? : distributional effects of property taxation in Germany

Barbosa, Rafael; Skipka, Simon - 2019

Despite its theoretical merits, Land Value Taxation (LVT) is not a common policy instrument in most countries. One of the main reasons is uncertainty regarding its distributional impacts. This uncertainty has not been settled by the literature, due to a lack of appropriate data at the household...

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Housing search frictions : evidence from detailed search data and a field experiment

Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric; Kapor, Adam - 2020

website of housing listings for families with housing vouchers. We find that this information causes families to choose … estimate a dynamic model of families' search for housing on and off the website, as well as their location decisions. The model …

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Out of sync subnational housing markets and macroprudential policies

Funke, Michael; Mihaylovski, Petar; Wende, Adrian - 2018

household sector and the housing stock in a two-region DSGE model with out of sync subnational housing markets and compare four …

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House prices and macroprudential policy in an estimated DSGE model of New Zealand

Funke, Michael; Kirkby, Robert; Mihaylovski, Petar - 2017

shocks specific to the housing sector. While our estimates show that monetary policy has large spillover effects on house …

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