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Contagion risk and network design
Cerdeiro, Diego; Dziubinski, Marcin; Goyal, Sanjeev - 2015
Individuals derive benefits from their connections, but these may, at the same time, transmit external threats. Individuals therefore invest in security to protect themselves. However, the incentives to invest in security depend on their network exposures. We study the problem of designing a...
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Instant efficient pollution abatement under non-linear taxation and asymmetric information : the differential tax revisited
Mensink, Paul - 2004
This paper analyzes incentives for polluting firms to exchange abatement cost information under the non-linear pollution tax scheme ( differential tax') introduced by Kim and Chang [J. Regul. Econom. 5, 1993, 193-197]. It shows that polluting firms have - under mild conditions - an incentive to...
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Endogenizing private information : incentive contracts under learning by doing
Gärtner, Dennis (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
technologies display learning effects and agents’ rate of learning is private knowledge. In a simple two-period model with full … commitment available to the principal, we show that whether learning effects are over- or under-exploited crucially depends on … whether learning effects increase or decrease the principal’s uncertainty about agents’ costs of production. Hence, what …
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On sharing the benefits of communication
Athanasiou, Efthymios; Dey, Santanu; Valletta, Giacomo - 2012
We put forward a model of private goods with externalities. Agents derive benefit from communicating with each other …. In order to communicate they need to have a language in common. Learning languages is costly. In this setting no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009565542
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Provision of public goods in a federalist country : Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the 26 Swiss cantons over the period 2000 to 2004 applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities (administration, public safety, education, culture and...
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Can bottom-up institutional reform improve service delivery?
Molina, Ezequiel - 2014
This article makes three contributions to the literature. First, it provides new evidence of the impact of community monitoring interventions using a unique dataset from the Citizen Visible Audit (CVA) program in Colombia. In particular, this article studies the effect of social audits on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286688
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Political parties, clientelism, and bureaucratic reform
Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip - 2015
The challenge of public administration reform is well-known: politicians often have little interest in the efficient implementation of government policy. Using new data from 439 World Bank public sector reform loans in 109 countries, we demonstrate that such reforms are significantly less likely...
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Trust, collaboration, and policy attitudes in the public sector
Keefer, Philip; Perilla, Sergio; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2021
This paper examines new data on public sector employees from 18 Latin American countries to shed light on the role of trust in the performance of government agencies. We developed an original survey taken during the first COVID-19 wave that includes randomized experiments with pandemic-related...
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Do civil servants respond to behavioral interventions? : a field experiment
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Zamora, Paula - 2021
Introducing financial incentives to increase productivity in the public sector tends to be politically and bureaucratically cumbersome, particularly in developing countries. Behavioral interventions could be a low-cost alternative, both politically and financially, although evidence of their...
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Monitoring public investment : the impact of MapaRegalías in Colombia
Lauletta, Maximiliano; Rossi, Martín Antonio; Cruz … - 2019
This paper analyzes the impact of Mapa- Regalías on efficiency in the execution of public investment projects in Colombia. MapaRegalías is an online platform that displays geo-referenced information and data on royalties coming from the extractives sector. The purpose of the platform is to...
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