The objective of this paper is to identify the impact of public and private agriculturalresearch on multi-output multi-input profit maximizing decisions of Midwestern farmers. The mainhypothesis is that investments in public and private R&D shift outward the supply curves for cropand livestock...

Zur Unterstützung der aktuellen Diskussion über die IPSAS im deutschsprachigen Raum, haben wir uns entschieden, im vorliegenden Workingpaper die 17 momentan gültigen IPSAS Standards (Stand Anfang April 2002) in deutscher Sprache zu beschreiben.

We investigate the influence of government size on the exposure of consumption growth to country-specific fluctuations in output growth using a sample of OECD countries. To the extent that governments are less constrained on international financial markets, it appears conceivable that...

Empirical work suggests the presence of a public sector wage premium, the reasons for which are investigated in this paper. The results demonstrate a higher premium paid to women and premium decreases concurrent with skills. Job security undermines the incentive to work hard and forces the...

This paper exploits a rich collection of household surveys to investigate the wage differential between the public and private sectors in 17 Latin American countries during the 1980s and 1990s. The paper also studies how the sector of employment affects the gender wage gap. The paper finds very...

Wie es bei volkswirtschaftlichen Betrachtungen nahe liegt, beginnt dieser Beitrag mit grundsätzlichen Überlegungen. Ich werde zunächst die prinzipielle Frage behandeln, wie aus ökonomischer Sicht die Tätigkeit des Staates in einer Marktwirtschaft zu beurteilen ist, und ich folge dabei einem...