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Half a Century of Public Software Institutions : Open Source as a Solution to Hold-Up Problem
Schwarz, Michael - 2009
We argue that the intrinsic inefficiency of proprietary software has historically created a space for alternative institutions that provide software as a public good. We discuss several sources of such inefficiency, focusing on one that has not been described in the literature: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463702
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Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods : Testing the Club Model
Berman, Eli - 2008
Can rational choice modeling explain why Hamas, Taliban, Hezbollah and other radical religious rebels are so lethal? The literature rejects theological explanations. We propose a club framework, which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464922
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What We Spend and What We Get : Public and Private Provision of Crime Prevention
Witte, Ann Dryden - 2001
In this paper, we consider a number of issues regarding crime prevention and criminal justice. We begin by considering how crime is measured and present both general and specific evidence on the level of crime in a variety of countries. Crime is pervasive and varies substantially across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470520
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The Size and Scope of Government : Comparative Politics with Rational Politicians
Persson, Torsten - 1998
We try to demonstrate how economists may engage in research on comparative politics, relating the size and composition of government spending to the political system. A Downsian model of electoral competition and forward-looking voting indicates that majoritarian -- as opposed to proportional --...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471964
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Openness, Country Size and the Government
Alesina, Alberto - 1997
This paper shows that smaller countries have larger public sectors as a share of GDP, and are also more open to trade. These empirical observations are consistent with recent theoretical models explaining country formation and break up
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472793
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The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods
Desmet, Klaus - 2018
This paper analyzes the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. The micro-founded conceptual framework we develop predicts that a country's public goods (i) decrease in its overall linguistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453026
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Collective Action in an Asymmetric World
Chen, Cuicui - 2016
A central authority possessing tax and expenditure responsibilities can readily provide an efficient level of a public good. Absent a central authority, voluntary arrangements must replace coercive ones. Significant under-provision must be expected. International public goods are particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456435
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Innovation Networks and Innovation Policy
Liu, Ernest; Ma, Song - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study the optimal allocation of R&D resources in an endogenous growth model with an innovation network, through … more R&D toward key sectors that are upstream in the innovation network. Second, we extend to an open-economy setting and … spillovers has less incentive to direct resources toward innovation-upstream sectors, leading to cross-country differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794633
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Tracing the Linkages Between Scientific Research and Energy Innovations : A Comparison of Clean and Dirty Technologies
Perrons, Robert K. - 2020
development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping … technologies. Here we combine information from patent applications with bibliographic data to shine light on the second process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481080
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Patents, Innovation, and Development
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2020
, beginning with a brief history of international patent systems and facts about the current use of patents around the world. I …I survey some recent research on the role of patents in encouraging innovation and growth in developing economies … discuss research on the implications of patents for international technology transfer and domestic innovation. This is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481786