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Sluggishness, Endogeneity and the Demand for Local Public Services

Dahlberg, Matz; Jacob, Johanna - 2000

Earlier studies estimating the demand for local public services by means of the median voter model have typically … assumed exogenous regressors and static set-ups. Furthermore, the commonly used log-linear specification of the demand … rationalised by a Cobb-Douglas utility function. This implies that the log-linear specification of the demand function is valid as …

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Bundling biodiversity

Heal, Geoffrey - 2002

Biodiversity provides essential services to human societies. Many of these services are provided as public goods, so that they will typically be underprovided both by market mechanisms (because of the impossibility of excluding non-payers from using the services) and by government-run systems...

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National Interference in Local Public Good Provision

Dur, Robert; Staal, Klaas - 2003

We analyze a simple model of local public good provision in a country consisting of a large number of heterogeneous regions, each comprising two districts, a city and a village. When districts remain autonomous and local public goods have positive spillover effects on the neighbouring district,...

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Valuing local public goods with advanced stated preference models: Traffic calming schemes in Northern England

Scarpa, Riccardo; Garrod, Guy D.; Willis, Kenneth G. - 2001

The paper reports the results of three stated preference surveys in urban-rural areas in Northern England. The objective is that of valuing the economic benefits from traffic calming schemes in two areas with different traffic problems from stated preference observations. Both choice-experiments...

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Leadership and influence: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision

D'Adda, Giovanna - 2011

This paper studies the effect of leadership on the level and evolution of pro-social behavior using an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision. Participants decide how much to contribute to an actual conservation project. They can then revise their donations after being...

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A Unified Framework for Estimating Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods

Bayer, Patrick; Ferreira, Fernando; McMillan, Robert - 2003

This paper sets out a framework for estimating household preferences over a broad range of housing and neighborhood characteristics, some of which are determined by the way that households sort in the housing market. This framework brings together the treatment of heterogeneity and selection...

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Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction: A Conceptual Framework for the Economic Impact

Steiner, Susan - 2005

political impact channels. It concentrates on the economic channel, the reasoning of which is rooted in fiscal federalism theory …

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Habakkuk revisited: a history friendly model of American and British technology in the nineteenth century

Fontana, Roberto; Guerzoni, Marco; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2008

-dynamics that gave rise to different patterns of innovation in the two countries. In particular, we suggest that different demand …

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Cinema demand in Germany

Dewenter, Ralf; Westermann, Michael - 2003

demand for movies per inhabitant. Furthermore, we test for the long run relationship and evaluate the elasticities of demand …

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Demand for mobile internet: Evidence from a real-world pricing experiment

Gao, Maija; Hyytinen, Ari; Toivanen, Otto - 2004

demand for first-generation wireless services using (i) consumerlevel panel data from a real world pricing experiment and (ii … conditional usage probability small. Demand for first-generation wireless services was highly elastic and the welfare gains to an … (early) adopter moderate. Pricing and taxation of wireless services had a large suppressing effect on demand …

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