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Public-Private Partnerships for the Provision of Public Goods: Theory and an Application to NGOs

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

This paper analyzes the role of public and private responsibility in the provision of publicgoods. We emphasize that a typical public good will require many different inputs whichraises the possibility of partnerships to exploit comparative advantages of different parties.But hold-up problems...

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Reforming Public Service Delivery

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science

This paper reviews some issues relevant to the delivery of public services. Itreviews some of the debates and flags some issues that are significantworldwide, especially in Africa. It emphasises how the debate has movedalong in terms of defining the relative responsibilities of the public...

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Procedurally Fair Provision of Public ProjectsAn axiomatic characterization

Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2011

Unanimous voting as the fundamental procedural source of political legitimacy grants vetopower to each individual. We present an axiomatic characterization of a class of biddingprocesses to spell out the underlying egalitarian values for collective projects of a“productive state”. At heart...

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If You Build It, Will They Come?: Fiscal Federalism,Local Provision of Public Tourist Amenities, and theVision Iowa Fund

Quackenbush, Austin; Premkumar, Deepak; Artz, Georgeanne M. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011

[...]This study shows that tourism did respond positively to the local public amenities built as part ofthe Vision Iowa program. County taxable retail sales rose by 0.9% for every 1% increase in expenditureson the projects. Because the State of Iowa taxes sales at 5% of each additional dollar of...

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A Utopia? - Government without Territorial Monopoly

Frey, Bruno S. - 2000

We normally take it for granted: a government or state has its corresponding territory. This paper shows that government need not have a territorial monopoly.

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Links between sustainability-related innovation andsustainability management

Wagner, Marcus - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008

This paper analyses the link between sustainability-related innovation and sustainability performance and the role that … on panel data, the paper analyses the link of corporate sustainability performance with sustainability innovation and the … to a moderating role of family firms on the link of sustainability innovation and performance and assesses the policy …

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Environmental and population externalities

Jöst, Frank; Quaas, Martin - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2006

In this paper, we investigate the external effects of the parent's de-cisions on the number of newly born children and the firm's decisions on theamount of polluting emissions that occur in industrial production. We employan optimal control model which comprises three stock variables...

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SHARING TRANSBOUNDARY RIVERS FAIRLY ANDEFFICIENTLY

Moller, Lars Christian - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2004

This paper provides an analytical framework for exploring the relationshipbetween equity and efficiency for two riparians sharing a transboundary river.Decreasing marginal productivities of water make a noncooperative approach inefficientwhen water is scarce. If the upstream riparian uses its...

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Das Kyoto Protokoll: Eine ökonomische Analyse unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der flexiblen Mechanismen

Haensgen, Tineke - Universität <Bamberg, 1979 -> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2002

In diesem Papier wird untersucht, ob bzw. wie sich im Rahmen des Kyoto Protokollsdie globalen Emissionsreduktionsziele mit der ökonomischen Rationalität derbeteiligten Länder in Einklang bringen lassen. Den äußeren Rahmen der Analyse bildeteine spieltheoretische Darstellung der...

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Contract Duration and Investment Incentives: Evidence from Land Tenancy Agreements

Bandiera, Oriana - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper analyses the empirical determinants of contract length, a key andyet neglected dimension of contractual structure. I estimate contract length andcontract type jointly using original data on tenancy agreements signed between1870 and 1880 in the district of Siracusa, Italy.The findings...

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