This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in government organizations. We present a model of how performance incentives may distort bureaucratic decisions. We define cream skimming within the model. Two major empirical...

Making use of restrictions imposed by equilibrium, theoretical progress has been made on the nonparametric and semiparametric estimation and identification of scalar additive hedonic models (Ekeland, Heckman, and Nesheim, 2002) and scalar nonadditive hedonic models (Heckman, Matzkin, and...

This paper considers the identification and estimation of hedonic models. We establish that in an additive version of the hedonic model, technology and preferences are generically identified up to affine transformations from data on demand and supply in a single hedonic market. For a very...

Hayeks frühes Plädoyer zugunsten dezentraler Planung beruht auf seinem innovativen Argument überlegener Wissensverarbeitung, das dem Wettbewerb wichtige gesell-schaftspolitische Funktionen zuschreibt. In seinen späteren Schriften hat er herausgear-beitet, wie wichtig der Wettbewerb ist, um...