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The political economy of emission tax design in environmental policy
Glachant, Matthieu - 2002
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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The Political Economy of a Publicly Provided Private Good with Adverse Selection
Delipalla, Sophia; O'Donnell, Owen - 1999
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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A multiplicity of approaches to institutional analysis : applications to the government and the arts
Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
Four types of economics" relevant for institutional analysis are distinguished: Standard Neoclassical Economics; Socio-Economics or Social Economics; New Institutional Economics; and Psychological Economics (often misleadingly called Behavioural Economics). The paper argues that an extension of...
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Determinants of the influence of voters and interest groups on the political decision making process
Bischoff, Ivo - 2001
This paper provides a comprehensive theoretical model of the political decision making process. Therein two ideologically different political parties compete for power. Their primary instrument in this competition are programmatic concessions in favor of voters and interest groups. As any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301406
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What does it take to sell environmental policy? An empirical analysis of referendum data
Halbheer, Daniel; Niggli, Sarah; Schmutzler, Armin - 2005
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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Institutionelle Grundlagen der Agrarprotektion: Eine polit-ökonomische Analyse der Agrarpolitik in den Mittel- und Osteuropäischen Ländern
Henning, Christian H.C.A.; Krause, Kim Carolin; Struve, … - In: Agrarwirtschaft: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, … 52 (2003) 6, pp. 289-299
The impact of political institutions, e.g. the organization of legislature, election and party systems, on agricultural protection has hardly been taken into account explicitly in theoretical and empirical studies, yet. In this framework the paper investigates to what extent political...
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Governing structural change and externalities in agriculture: toward a normative institutional economics of rural development
Petrick, Martin - 2004
The paper aims at a conceptual contribution to the normative economic analysis of rural de-velopment (RD) policies. RD is regarded as a problem of interaction between individuals; (lacking) structural change or the (missing) integration of externalities are therefore recon-structed as...
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Die Rolle der Institutionen: Fragen und Antworten zur Institutionenökonomik und Institutionenethik
Pies, Ingo - 2011
Dieses Interview wurde für eine Fachzeitschrift geführt, die sich primär an Lehrer wendet, welche in der Schule die Fächer „Politik“ oder „Wirtschaft“ unterrichten. Die Fragen und Antworten versuchen, verständlich werden zu lassen, wie wichtig es gerade für Schüler ist, die...
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Why Brennan and Buchanan are wrong (after all)
Apolte, Thomas - 2007
In their book The Power to Tax, Brennan and Buchanan have pointed to a central weakness of the traditional theory of … public finance and especially of the theory of optimal taxation: This approach overlooked the problem of governmental power … theory appears to be once the problem of power is considered. Nevertheless, Brennan and Buchanan's suggestions for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298416
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An enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment, and dissolution of states and governmental units
Hausken, Kjell; Knutsen, John F. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-32, pp. 1-38
The article proposes an enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment and dissolution of governmental units, giving autonomy to each individual as in a direct democracy. The mechanism is designed such that Pareto optimality is possible, in contrast to earlier models which make various...
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