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Incentive Contracts for Politicians
Liessem, Verena - 2003
Die Dissertation untersucht mit spieltheoretischen Methoden das Potential von Anreizverträgen für Politiker. Diese … Verträge sollen die durch die Wahl ausgeübte Kontrolle der Politiker unterstützen.Es werden zwei Arten von Anreizverträgen … betrachtet: a) monetäre Anreizverträge, die den Politiker belohnen, falls er wiedergewählt wurde; b) Schwellenverträge, die das …
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How Local Governments Structure Contracts with Private Firms: Economic Theory and Evidence on Solid Waste and Recycling Contracts
Walls, Margaret - 2003
Solid waste management services are contracted out to private firms in many U.S. communities. Household waste collection, transport, and disposal are relatively straightforward services to define within the terms of a contract. The addition of recycling, however, significantly complicates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445462
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Should we combine incentive payments and tendering for efficiently purchasing conservation services from landholders?
Schilizzi, Steven; Breustedt, Gunnar; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - 2010
Policy makers aiming to get private landholders to provide non-marketed environmental services need to provide efficient economic incentives. Two ideas have been explored to achieve this: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and putting the contracts up for tender. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446039
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AUCTIONING OUTCOME-BASED CONSERVATION CONTRACTS
Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe; Schilizzi, Steven; Breustedt, Gunnar - 2011
This paper explores two ideas to enhance the performance of agri-environmental contracting schemes: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and putting the contracts up for tender. This paper investigates whether there are any gains to be had by combining the benefits of both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446183
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Social Preferences and Public Economics: Mechanism design when social preferences depend on incentives
Bowles, Samuel; Hwang, Sung-Ha - 2008
Social preferences such as altruism, reciprocity, intrinsic motivation and a desire to uphold ethical norms are essential to good government, often facilitating socially desirable allocations that would be unattainable by incentives that appeal solely to self-interest. But experimental and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467887
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Social Preferences and Public Economics: Mechanism design when social preferences depend on incentives
Bowles, Samuel; Hwang, Sung-Ha - 2008
Social preferences such as altruism, reciprocity, intrinsic motivation and a desire to uphold ethical norms are essential to good government, often facilitating socially desirable allocations that would be unattainable by incentives that appeal solely to self-interest. But experimental and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468014
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Three Essays on Worker Turnover and Incentive Contracts in Labour Market Search Equilibrium
Zaharieva, Anna - 2010
This dissertation thesis consists of three independent research papers and is devoted to the topic of worker turnover and incentive contracts in a labour market characterized by search frictions and matching. There exists a large body of literature dating back to the seminal studies by Diamond,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471691
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Sustaining fixed rates: The political economy of currency pegs in Latin America
Blomberg, S. Brock; Frieden, Jeffry; Stein, Ernesto - 2005
Government exchange rate regime choice is constrained by both political and economic factors. One political factor is the role of special interests: the larger the tradable sectors exposed to international competition, the less likely is the maintenance of a fixed exchange rate regime. Another...
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Argentina: the 1997 parliamentary elections (lower house)
Lauga, Martín - 1998
This article analizes the 26 October 1997 Argentinian elections (partial renewal of the lower chamber) from a … historical-comparative perspective. The article also examines the consequences of the elections results on the development of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476191
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Democracy, Crises, and Misconceptions
Beilharz, Hans-Jörg - 2005
We consider misconceptions about the functioning of the economy as one possible explanation for the emergence of crises in democracies. Furthermore, we study a political process which may lead to successful reform. First of all, we show that voters can make inefficient decisions concerning...
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