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Falkinger, Josef - 2008

Advertisements provide consumers with knowledge about private products, whereas political information is required to provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalisation are increasing the exposure of individuals to information. Goods advertising is...

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Can the diligent governance increase subjective wellbeing? : new evidence from environmental regulations in China

Guo, Shu; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2021

With the appearance of "wellbeing stagnation", the Chinese government has gradually realized the negative impact of increasingly severe environmental problem on people's wellbeing, and has then has formulated a series of environmental policies. Based on the balanced panel data from2014 to 2018...

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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 … economy) is calculated to measure technical efficiency. Efficiency scores are then related to the fiscal equalization scheme … competition. -- DEA ; efficiency measurement ; federalism ; fiscal equalization ; public finance ; Switzerland ; Tiebout …

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Does participatory budgeting improve decentralized public service delivery?

Beuermann, Diether W.; Amelina, Maria - 2014

This paper provides the first experimental evaluation of the participatory budgeting model showing that it increased public participation in the process of public decision making, increased local tax revenues collection, channeled larger fractions of public budgets to services stated as top...

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The importance of clarity : impacts of Colombia's Lenguaje Claro Program on reducing administrative burdens

Cuesta, Ana; Reyes, Angela; Roseth, Benjamin - 2019

Citizens confront multiple challenges when attempting to access public services. This article focuses on an aspect yet unaddressed by existing literature on administrative burdens: the complexity of the written language used by government agencies in Latin America. It presents an impact...

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A welfare analysis of "junk" information and spam filters

Falkinger, Josef - 2008

This paper analyses the equilibrium effects of individual information filters. Information is modelled as advertisements which are distributed across a population of consumers with heterogeneous preferences. An advertisement that provides knowledge about a product with little or no utility for a...

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Open versus Closed Source - Eine organisationsökonomische Betrachtung zum Wettbewerb der Betriebssysteme Windows und Linux

Franck, Egon; Jungwirth, Carola - 2001

In spite of Microsoft´s quasi monopoly position in the market for operating systems Linux has succeeded to become a serious competitor of Microsoft Windows. From an economic standpoint this fact raises some puzzles.(...)

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Towards efficient information sharing in network markets

Martens, Bertin; Parker, Geoffrey; Petropoulos, Georgios; … - 2021

Digital platforms facilitate interactions between consumers and merchants that allow collection of profiling information, which drives innovation and welfare. Private incentives, however, lead to information asymmetries resulting in market failures both on-platform, among merchants, and...

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Digital platforms and antitrust

Parker, Geoffrey; Petropoulos, Georgios; Van Alstyne, … - 2020

intervention; in particular, interventions should not reduce network effects; ii) allocative efficiency is based on distributing … govern the platform ecosystem; iii) dynamic efficiency and competition ensure that incentives for market misconduct and …

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Online business platforms and international trade

Carballo, Jerónimo; Rodriguez Chatruc, Marisol; Salas … - 2020 - This version: June 2020

International trade is subject to information incompleteness. Firms must therefore engage in a costly search process to find business partners. Online platforms can reduce these search costs and thereby favor firms exports. We examine whether this is actually the case and the underlying...

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