Theorie. Dabei wird häufig argumentiert, dass eine Dezentralisierung der öffentlichen Aufgaben nicht nur die Wachstumschancen … series of arguments that decentralization of governments enhances growth by improving allocation efficiency. However, the … there might be a threshold level of economic development below which decentralization is not effective. Developing and …

Theorie. Dabei wird häufig argumentiert, dass eine Dezentralisierung der öffentlichen Aufgaben nicht nur die Wachstumschancen … series of arguments that decentralization of governments enhances growth by improving allocation efficiency. However, the … there might be a threshold level of economic development below which decentralization is not effective. Developing and …

?rderung wirtschaftlichen Wachstums auch das Instrument der Dezentralisierung, das oft als Mittel zur ?Beruhigung? separatistischer Bestrebungen …-enhancing policies, but also on the instrument of decentralization, which is often presented as a tool suited to appease separatist …

'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 …