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Straßenverkehrssicherheit als wichtige Voraussetzung für nachhaltige Mobilität
Assing, Kai; Höhnscheid, Karl-Josef; Kranz, Thomas; … - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 79 (2010) 2, pp. 61-76
mobility. Therefore, the aim of improving road safety has to continue to have paramount importance in traffic and transport …Road safety forms a fundamental prerequisite for sustainable mobility. Road accidents have an effect on the performance … of the road traffic system and also bind resources. Therefore, apart from ethical aspects, road accidents have an …
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Desigualdades socioespaciais de acesso a oportunidades nas cidades brasileiras - 2019
Pereira, Rafael H. M.; Braga, Carlos Kauê Vieira; … - 2019
One of the core aims of transportation policies is to facilitate people's access to employment, health and education … focused on the challenges of reducing road congestion and commuting times, while paying little attention to issues of urban … concentration of activities in central urban areas combined with the performance/connectivity of transportation networks lead to …
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments: Insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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Size and soft budget constraints
Crivelli, Ernesto; Staal, Klaas - 2006
There is much evidence against the so-called too big to fail hypothesis in the case of bailouts to sub-national governments. We look at a model where districts of different size provide local public goods with positive spillovers. Matching grants of a central government can induce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333869
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Size and Soft Budget Constraints
Crivelli, Ernesto; Staal, Klaas - 2006
There is much evidence against the so-called "too big to fail" hypothesis in the case of bailouts to sub-national governments. We look at a model where districts of different size provide local public goods with positive spillovers. Matching grants of a central government can induce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263174
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It's good weather for more government: The effect of weather on fiscal policy
De Souza, Gustavo - 2022
increase in expenditure is directed towards a larger police and safety budget. This result is compatible with a model of … complementarity between consumption and public goods. In the model, high-income voters support an increase in safety budget because …
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Change of the organisational and legal form of independent public healthcare centres (SPZOZ) and consequences for financing healthcare entity activities
Wołowiec, Tomasz; Skica, Tomasz - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 9 (2013) 2, pp. 75-91
Local government units (LGU) are nowadays facing the very difficult and complicated task of making reasonable decisions regarding the transforming of SPZOZs into capital companies. First, it seems necessary to carry out a simulation of costs and advantages of the assumed models and solutions...
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Does aid improve public service delivery?
Wolf, Susanna - 2007
The expected increase in aid to Africa will put a big challenge for public service delivery. Using a simultaneous equation model, this paper provides an analysis of the effects of the volume and volatility of aid on education, health, water and sanitation outcomes, taking also into account the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284741
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Immigration and public spending
Böheim, René; Mayr, Karin - 2005
We examine the effect of immigration on public spending from a theoretical (political economic) and an empirical perspective. We distinguish between public spending on private goods and on public goods. Our model implies that whether immigration increases or decreases public spending primarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325619
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Immigration and public spending
Böheim, René; Mayr, Karin - 2005
We examine the effect of immigration on public spending from a theoretical (political economic) and an empirical perspective. We distinguish between public spending on private goods and on public goods. Our model implies that whether immigration increases or decreases public spending primarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267587