The introduction of competitive mechanisms and of markets or market-type instruments is a common topic in recent public sector modernisation everywhere. This paper explores the role, the trends and the effects of introducing market-oriented incentives into the discourse about reforming state and...

The structure and regulation of a country’s financialmarkets and institutions are the focus of considerablepolicy attention for a number of economic and politicalreasons. Banks and other financial institutions encourage andcollect the savings that finance a country’s economic growth.By...

Die deutsche Wohnungswirtschaft unterliegt einer tiefgreifenden staatlichen Regulierung.Hiervon sind insbesondere Heizungsanlagen betroffen. Durch die vorgeschriebene Aufteilungin Kaltmiete und Nebenkosten stellt sich die Investition in eine neue, effiziente Heizungsanlagefür den Vermieter als...

The travel of small facts (such as data) across geographicallocations and disciplines is increasingly regulated by the private andpublic sponsors of digital databases. My analysis focuses on thecontrast between the strategies supported by the public and privatesectors in governing bioinformatic...

Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attractedinternational attention. In this paper demand analysis is used to try and uncoverthe factors which may be driving the emergence of these gender gaps.Drawing on household expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich...

This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature,1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integrationaects rm size and effciency, norm enforcement, and aggregate economic performance.When economic integration is low and local...

Was können wir unter den Begriff "Verwaltungsmodernisierung" fassen? Seit 1991 spricht man inder Kommunalverwaltung vom neuen Steuerungsmodell, das - wie gesagt - die KGSt unter maßgeblicherMitwirkung ihres früheren Vorstandes Gerhard Banner (1991) ins Leben gerufen hat, und diesesneue...