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Does Participatory Budgeting Improve Decentralized Public Service Delivery?
Beuermann, Diether Wolfgang; Amelina, Maria - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
This paper provides the first experimental evaluation of the participatory budgeting model showing that it increased public participation in the process of public decision making, increased local tax revenues collection, channeled larger fractions of public budgets to services stated as top...
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Exploring the role of uncertainty for corporate investment decisions in Germany
von Kalckreuth, Ulf - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2000
The impact of uncertainty on firms? investment outlays is subject to an ongoing debate. Theory identifies several … investment likely. On the other hand, the ability of firms to adapt after uncertainty is resolved can make a risky strategy more …?s investment outlays using the database of the Deutsche Bundesbank's corporate balance sheet statistics. Our database represents …
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Firm Investment and Monetary Policy Transmission in the Euro Area
von Kalckreuth, Ulf; Hernando, Ignacio; Generale, Andrea; … - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2001
We present a comparable set of results on the monetary transmission channels on firm investment for the four largest … channel. For each of those countries, we estimate neoclassical investment relationships, explaining investment by its user … cost, sales and cash flow. We find investment to be sensitive to user cost changes in all those four countries. This …
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Fibre-optic Networks: On Investment, Regulation and Competition
Heinacher, Peter; Preissl, Brigitte - In: CESifo DICE Report 4 (2006) 3, pp. 22-28
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Effects of Tax Depreciation Rules on Firms' Investment Decisions: A Comparison of European Transition Countries
Nam, Chang Woon; Radulescu, Doina Maria - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 2, pp. 52-55
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Zukunftsmärkte für Dienstleistungen - das Feld Handel, Distribution, Konsum und Freizeit
Bopp, Christian - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 49 (1996) 25-26, pp. 30-32
Zur Stärkung der Zukunftsfähigkeit des Wirtschaftsstandorts Deutschland hat der Bundesminister für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) ein Projekt "Dienstleistung 2000plus" initiiert. Zwölf Arbeitskreise, denen Persönlichkeiten aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Verbänden...
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Warten auf Operationen - ein internationaler Vergleich
Osterkamp, Rigmar - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 55 (2002) 10, pp. 14-21
In etlichen europäischen und außereuropäischen Ländern ist es im Rahmen des öffentlichen Gesundheitswesens nicht möglich, eine nicht lebensnotwendige Operation ohne lange Wartezeiten durchführen zu lassen. In Deutschland und manchen anderen Industrieländern sind derartige Wartezeiten...
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Dienstleistungen - kommt endlich Bewegung in die Erfassung des Struktur- und Funktionswandels
Eli, Max - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 01 (1994) 06, pp. 02-04
Der Dienstliestungssektor ist wegen seiner Spannweite und Komplexität des Bereichs - es gibt produktionsnahe, distributive, konsumbezogene, soziale und staatliche Dienstleistungen - und vor allem wegen der Geschwindigkeit des wirtschaftlichen Struktur- und Funktionswandels und unzulänglichen...
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Ownership and control in local public utilities: the Italian case
Calabrò, Andrea; Torchia, Mariateresa; Ranalli, Francesco - In: Journal of Management and Governance 17 (2013) 4, pp. 835-862
The paper discusses the ownership and control structures of local public utilities by showing evidence from the Italian case. In this discussion, the focus is on three main aspects: the ownership structure, the board composition and independence, and citizens’ involvement (service charters)....
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THE IMPACT OF THE TOTAL TAX RATE REDUCTION ON PUBLIC SERVICES PROVIDED IN ROMANIA
TRANDAFIR, Adina - In: Annals of Spiru Haret University, Economic Series 5 (2014) 3, pp. 27-38
Against the background of economic globalization, governments tend to take tax measures disadvantageous to society in order to increase the attractiveness of the business environment. A common measures for this purpose is the reduction in tax rate.According to the classical theory of tax...
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