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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy
Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009
Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872219
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Sustainable social spending in a greying economy with stagnant public services : Baumol's cost disease revisited
Ploeg, Frederick van der (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003379810
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Pawns and queens revisited : public provision of private goods when individuals make mistakes
Pirttilä, Jukka (contributor); Tenhunen, Sanna (contributor) - 2005
This paper analyses the optimal tax policy and public provision of private goods when individuals differ in two respects: income-earning ability and rationality. Publicly provided goods should be overprovided or subsidised, relative to the decentralised optimum, if society’s marginal valuation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002855793
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Incentives, self-selection, and coordination of motivated agents for the production of social goods
Bauer, Kevin; Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021
We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated agents to produce a social good. Agents join teams where they allocate effort to either generate individual monetary rewards (selfish effort) or contribute to the production of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599052
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Inequality and redistribution via the public provision of private goods
Katsimē, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2004
The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government … expenditure). We show that inequality may have no discernible effect on the size of redistributive programs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402700
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The cost of decentralization : linguistic polarization and the provision of education
Cinnirella, Francesco; Schüler, Ruth M. - 2016
analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically … polarized society and a decentralized education system. Using unique county-level data on education spending we show that … border suggest that the relationship can be causally interpreted. Exploiting a reform of education spending, we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474691
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Incentives and anonymity principle : crowding out toward users
Crifo, Patricia (contributor);  … - 2004
- egalitarian but more efficient. Low performing agents reduce inequality among users by delivering an egalitarian service, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002520792
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Competition and quality in regulated markets with sluggish demand
Brekke, Kurt R.; Cellini, Roberto; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2010
We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935230
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Does federalism affect e-government in Germany?
Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang-woon; Steinhoff, Peter - 2023
International comparisons show that the reasons why e-government development in Germany does not occupy the desired "top spot" in rankings lie primarily in the inadequate provision of online services with little corresponding user orientation. In order to provide better and faster public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540686
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Who benefits from AI? : project-level evidence on labor demand, operations and profitability
Yilmaz, Erdem Dogukan; Peukert, Christian - 2024
We examine how the adoption of digital automation technology affects labor demand, operations and profitability in the … labor cost increased after the adoption of digital automation technology, attributable to increased labor demand and more … automation technology increased revenue and profit through a reduction in operational cost, improved utilization of warehouse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015057718