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Bringing Citizens Back In: Renewing Public Service Regulation
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
across populations, and that specifically targeted “bottom-up” regulation from the demand-side could usefully address these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283800
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Should Oklahoma Be More Like Texas? A Taxing Decision
Rickman, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper considers whether Texas should serve as the economic policy model for Oklahoma, particularly in terms of … reducing or eliminating the state income tax. I compare Oklahoma’s recent economic performance to that of Texas and other … warrant Oklahoma emulating Texas economic policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258665
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Welfare Effects of Water Pricing in Germany
Müller, Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The observed two-part tariff price structure (consisting of a lump-sum price and a linear marginal price) for drinking water in Germany does not reflect the cost structure reported in the literature. Recovering marginal costs from a sample of 251 German counties, we see that there are positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259053
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Ethnic minority children’s access to public services in Vietnam
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This study provides an analysis of access to public services of ethnic minority children. The main data sets are from a Baseline Survey of the Program 135-II in 2007, Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys 2004 and 2006, and the 15-percent sample of the Population and Housing Census 2009. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323458
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Choosing the extent of private participation in public services: A computable general equilibrium perspective
Chisari, Omar O.; Lambardi, Germán D.; Romero, Carlos A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
What determines the propensity to reduce or widen the extent of public ownership? Why has there been a tendency to privatise and concede public utilities during the nineties? The answers to these questions depend both on macroeconomic and microeconomic considerations. And correct answers could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005668426
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Les transferts de competences vus depuis la Roumanie
Matei, Ani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper approaches the topic of competence transfer in Romanian public administration in view of enlarging the processes of decentralization and deconcentration. The relation between decentralization of administration and competence transfer is biunivoque and it is understood in broad meaning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562652
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The role of household income and public provision of social services in satisfaction of basic needs in Pakistan: A cross district analysis
Siddiqui, Rizwana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Is household income enough for human development or government should heed to direct provision of social services to improve capabilities of individual. The former emphasized by the World Bank and later by the UNDP. This paper tests the argument by estimating a basic need policy model for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620132
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Strategic Japanese business visions – possible transposes in public services
Grigorescu, Adriana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Frequently, the „Japanese miracle” was a subject of discussion. The book „The Strategist Brain Power – The Business Art in Japan”, by Kenichi Ohmae (Japan, 1975) when the business environment was confronted with serious problems. The book brings, also in Romania (1998), a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645125
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Serviciile publice între nevoia cetăţeanului şi posibilităţile administraţiei
Grigorescu, Adriana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
lack of regulation and of long-term stability. Harmonizing the interests of both parties is essential for the smooth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680993
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Warfare, Fiscal Capacity, and Performance
Dincecco, Mark; Prado, Mauricio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We exploit differences in casualties sustained in pre-modern wars to estimate the impact of fiscal capacity on economic performance. In the past, states fought different amounts of external conflicts, of various lengths and magnitudes. To raise the revenues to wage wars, states made fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113133