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Political drivers of and barriers to Public-Private Partnerships: The role of political involvement
Gawel, Erik - 2011
The application and design of public-private partnerships between the extremes of purely public or purely private task fulfilment in public services is, in practice, subject to political processes. Decisions about PPPs (realisation, arrangement) are taken in the political arena and are therefore...
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Choice democracy
Ledoit, Olivier - 2011
Democracy is defined by two core tenets: voice and pluralism. Within these constraints, a wide variety of regime types … can be designed. We show that the only new, untested form of democracy is when every citizen is governed by the political … one sovereign only over the people who chose to vote for it - hence the name: Choice Democracy. Choice Democracy can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316842
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The Effect of Elections on Economic Growth: Results from a Natural Experiment in Indonesia
Moricz, Sara; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2014
Does democracy increase economic growth? Previous literature tends to find a positive effect but does also suffer from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208683
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Public housing units vs. housing vouchers: accessibility, local public goods, and welfare
Sarpça, Sinan; Leung, Charles Ka Yui; Yilmaz, Kuzey - 2010
A perennial debate worldwide over housing aid policy focuses on whether the government should provide housing vouchers or subsidized public housing units. To complement the empirically- dominated literature, this paper builds a general equilibrium model that merges urban land use (monocentric...
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The German 3G Licence Auction: Did the Government's Stake in Deutsche Telekom Influence the Outcome?
Rander, Robin - 2004
The spectrum for third generation (3G) mobile communications for the German market was alloted to operators by means of an auction. This resulted in a highly competitive outcome: six operators were given rights to provide 3G services. Government revenues from this auction were a staggering EUR...
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Pipeline Power
Hubert, Franz; Cobanli, Onur - 2012
We use cooperative game theory to analyze the impact of three controversial pipeline projects on the power structure in the Eurasian trade of natural gas. Two of them, Nord Stream and South Stream, allow Russian gas to bypass transit countries, Ukraine and Belarus. Nord Stream's strategic value...
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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: Evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program
Aygün, Aysun Hızıroğlu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021
This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...
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The dynamic consequences of state-building: Evidence from the French Revolution
Chambru, Cédric; Henry, Emeric; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2022
How do radical reforms of the state shape economic development over time? In 1790, France's first Constituent Assembly overhauled the kingdom's organization to set up new administrative entities and local capitals. In a subset of departments, new capitals were chosen quasi-randomly as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164126
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Fault lines in the secondary education system in two Indian states
Sharma, Rashmi - 2020
This paper, situated against the growing body of work that argues that adequate state capacity and robust public institutions are key for socio-economic development, examines the leading and supporting institutions of secondary education in two Indian states, Andhra Pradesh (AP) and Rajasthan....
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On the political and economic determinants of redistribution: Economic gains, ideological gains, or institutions?
De Souza, Gustavo - 2022
I describe a structural method to quantify the contribution of different elements of social choice to the level of redistribution. Estimating a DSGE model with microdata on the support for redistribution, I find that if voters disregarded their ideological views on welfare policies,...
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