International comparisons of the organization and performance of health care sectors are increasingly informing policy makers about potential policies relating to the cost of, and access to, health care. Perhaps nowhere have such comparisons featured as prominently as in North America. In...

Este ensayo es una aproximación a la manera eficiente de seleccionar al universo de contribuyentes y asi obtener la muestra ideal que nos permita tener resultados eficaces al momento de someterlos a una fiscalización, trata de determinar los indicadores microeconomicos más relevantes para...

Algebraic topology and social choice theory

The purpose of this chapter is twofold. Firstly, in sections 2 to 4 a brief outline is given of Rawlsian justice in relation to basic income. Section 2 presents Rawls's principles of justice and the accompanying primary social goods to which these principles are applied. Sections 3 and 4 deal...

This study uses the quantity-based Allais-Debreu measure of loss to measure the waste, in output or resources, induced by interventions in the agricultural sector in 18 developing countries.

A simple Ising spin model which can describe the mechanism of advertising in a duopoly market is proposed. In contrast to other agent- based models, the influence does not flow inward from the surrounding neighbors to the center site, but spreads outward from the center to the neighbors. The...

This paper aims at a better understanding of the factors influencing the decision of young graduates who entered teaching to stay in that profession. The field of research covers secondary education teachers in the French-Speaking Community of Belgium. The data analysed comes from an...

Sophisticated agents with self-control problems value commitment devices that constrain future choices. Using Australian household data, I test whether these households value commitment devices in the form of illiquid pension contributions. Applying various probabilistic choice models, the...

Under court rulings, the jurisdiction can require the developer to bear only those public-sector costs that relate reasonably to his project. To avoid a lawsuit by the developer over cost estimates, planners can offer him his choice of sets of conditions that would attach to land-use permits....

Before making di±cult decisions, individuals tend to collect information on decision makers in reference groups. With respect to policy innovations in a decentralized public sector, this may give rise to positive neighborhood influence on adoption decisions. On the other hand, due to learning...