'public finance', 'political economy', 'growth theory', 'human capital theory', and 'innovation-driven growth theory …'.The first project reveals that the prevailing notion of education externalities is misleading and therefore empirical … externalities of education according to Lucas (1988) are likely to be internalized on the labor market. Education is recognized as a …

of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader … conducted. A distinction is made between two types of appropriation externalities: those that are restricted to a single period …

externalities, however, efficiency may no longer be guaranteed.This dissertation shows that a modification of Ausubel & Milgrom … presence of externalities, the resulting auction possessesan efficient Nash equilibrium in pure strategies leading to a core … strategy. The auction is augmented to includeexplicitly the auctioneer's preferences over final outcomes. Externalities …

explore Maslow’s theory of human motivation as a psychological theory for promoting SDI in developing countries. In this … brings Maslow's motivational theory to the fore, and proposes it as a rationalization mechanism for entities (mostly … governmental) that aim at realizing SDI. Maslow's theory, though well-known, is somewhat new in geospatial circles; this is where …

productivity. It takes the notion of local human capital externalities as its core theoretical concept, which contends that … respect to Germany, the notion of local human capital externalities is of potential relevance since average levels of … regional productivity can be assigned to local human capital externalities and sheds light on the microeconomic mechanisms …

to work ‘excessively’. The paper advances our understanding of work motivation and workaholic behavior and presents a … called a workaholic, and that the imposition of negative externalities on co-workers is a separate issue that might also … negative externalities on fellow workers is argued to be a separate issue – any one of the hard workers might irk their fellow …

effort, I used a public sector context in which there has been limited systematic empirical research into work motivation … sector work motivation by revealing what work behaviours public sector employees perceive as discretionary and what work …

through human capital investment. I conduct an extensive review of work motivation theories and synthesize findings from … ways that public managers can achieve better performance and greater productivity through increased work motivation. …