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In actual environmental policy, the design of actual pollution emission taxes differs significantly with the optimal Pigovian tax. In particular, earmarking prevails and actual taxes are usually combined with regulation. Furthermore tax rates are generally too low to significantly influence...
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Given heterogeneity in incomes and health risks, with asymmetric information in the latter, preferences over the public-private mix in health insurance and care are derived. Results concerning crowding-out in the presence of adverse selection are established. For low-risk individuals,...
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actors. While such an analysis informs us about the authority structure within an organization, it ignores the decision …-making mechanisms completely. The few studies which take into account the decision-making mechanisms make all use of adaptations of well … a class of decision-making mechanisms which allow certain actors to terminate a decision before all other members have …
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both public choice and transaction costs theory - have not yet provided a fully comprehensive explanation for municipal …
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This paper provides a comprehensive theoretical model of the political decision making process. Therein two … influence of these two groups of political agents on the political decision making process. Hence the political model developed … amount of concessions and thus the influence of voters and interest groups on the political decision making process. …
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We analyze the factors that influence the support for environmental policy proposals. Swiss referendum data show that proposals obtain more yes-votes if they do not restrict consumption possibilities directly, if they are endorsed by the largest business association, if environmental preferences...
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This essay deals with the notion and content of freedom of choice proposing a new set up and a new family of measures for this concept which is, indeed, an ethical value of paramount importance in a well ordered and open society. Following some ideas of John StuartMill, we propose that freedom...
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with a finite decision. This paper suggests that this agonistic approach needs de-cisions or simply put, temporary … decisions drawn from seeing a decision as a solution for now. A de-cision is not a no-decision, but a decision recognised as … planning process from being a matter of reaching a finite decision to a strife about how to understand the present and which …
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case of the Netherlands that each of these elements applies although the effect of population size preference and the self …
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by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …
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