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Efficient Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions

Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin M. - 2013

We study fiscal spending by supranational unions, where participation is voluntary and countries bargain over contributions to and the allocation of a central budget. We establish and explore the link between the budget's allocation and nations' contributions that occurs since bargaining power...

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Mandatory versus discretionary spending: The status quo effect

Bowen, T. Renee; Chen, Ying; Eraslan, Hülya - 2012

Do mandatory spending programs such as Medicare improve efficiency? We analyze a model with two parties allocating a fixed budget to a public good and private transfers each period over an infinite horizon. We compare two institutions that differ in whether public good spending is discretionary...

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Mandatory Versus Discretionary Spending: The Status Quo Effect

Bowen, T. Renee; Chen, Ying; Eraslan, Hülya - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500227

When are preferences consistent? The effects of task familiarity and contextual cues on revealed and stated preferences

Schläpfer, Felix; Fischhoff, Baruch - 2010

Traditionally, economists make a sharp distinction between stated and revealed preferences, viewing the latter as more fully meeting the assumptions of economic analysis. Here, we consider one form of empirical evidence regarding this belief: the consistency of choices in stated and revealed...

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Competitive politics, simplified heuristics, and preferences for public goods

Schläpfer, Felix; Schmitt, Marcel; Roschewitz, Anna - 2007

This paper examines the role of simplified heuristics in the formation of preferences for public goods. Political scientists have suggested that voters use simplified heuristics based on the positions of familiar parties to infer how a proposed policy will affect them and to cast a vote in line...

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An analysis of the Swiss vote on the use of genetically modified crops

Schläpfer, Felix - 2007

In November 2005, 55.7 percent of 2 million Swiss voters approved a 5-year moratorium (ban) on the commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) plants within Switzerland. The present study examines how individual voting decisions were determined by (i) socioeconomic characteristics, (ii)...

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The provision point mechanism with reward money

Zubrickas, Robertas - 2013

We introduce reward money into the provision point mechanism with refunds. Reward money is distributed among the contributors in proportion to their contributions only when the provision point is not reached. In environments without aggregate uncertainty, the provision point is always reached in...

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The firms' integration process of the twin pillars of environmental sustainability: Climate change and biodiversity loss

Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Arvidsson, Susanne - 2024

This study examines the integration of climate change and biodiversity into business strategies and governance … business strategies, and are ahead in the process of integrating it into governance structures. Biodiversity integration is … that firms require external pressures from, e.g., regulations to integrate biodiversity and climate change into business …

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Sawhney, Aparna - 2004

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Measuring sustainability under regime shift uncertainty: A resilience pricing approach

Li, Chuan-Zhong; Mäler, Karl-Göran - 2010

for regime shift in a dynamic economy-environment system. Following Holling (1973),we consider resilience as the maximal …

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