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Reprioritizing Government Spending on Health: Pushing an Elephant Up the Stairs?

Tandon, Ajay; Fleisher, Lisa; Li, Rong; Yap, Wei Aun - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organization (WHO) data estimate that, in 2011, health's share of aggregate government expenditure in...

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On Non-binary Personal Preferences in Society, Economic Theory and Racial Discrimination

Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper examines some of the consequences for economic theory of the replacement of binary personal preferences by non-binary personal preferences in an Arrow-Debreu society as in Debreu (1959), and reaches the conclusion that there is both much damage to existing theory and greater...

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Sluggishness, Endogeneity and the Demand for Local Public Services.

Dahlberg, M.; Jacob, J. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 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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Sluggishness, Endogeneity and the Demand for Local Public Services.

Dahlberg, M.; Jacob, J. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

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Eine erweiterte Gesamtrechnung der multifunktionalen Schweizer Landwirtschaft

Schlaepfer, Felix; Mann, Stefan - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2012

In diesem Beitrag wird nach Wegen gesucht, die nichtmarktlichen Leistungen der Schweizer Landwirtschaft gezielter als bislang in die Landwirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung zu integrieren. Dabei werden drei Methoden geprüft: Die Erfassung der leistungsbezogenen Direktzahlungen, die Ermittlung der...

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Ökonomisches Konzept zur Parkraumbewirtschaftung in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

Bruns, Oliver; Ebel, Heike Marie; Hohloch, Marc; … - Fakultät Wirtschaft und Management, Technische … - 2002

Die Überlastung der vorhandenen Verkehrsinfrastruktur in Ballungsgebieten zu den Hauptverkehrszeiten stellt ein zunehmendes wirtschaftliches und verkehrliches Problem dar. In diesem Beitrag werden Lösungsmöglichkeiten für eine effiziente Verteilung bzw. Allokation des knappen Gutes Freie...

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Club efficiency and Lindahl equilibrium

ten Raa, Thijs - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1997

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Knowledge and the valuation of public goods and experiential commodities: information provision and acquisition

Tisdell, Clem - In: Global Business and Economics Review 9 (2007) 2/3, pp. 170-182

Provides empirical evidence of deficient knowledge of public goods and experiential commodities. It considers whether information provision about the characteristics of these commodities is likely to result in individuals' finding their 'true' preferences, and identifies the nature of...

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Households, Markets and Public Choice

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2014

We develop a model that combines competitive exchange of private commodities across endogenously formed groups with public good provision and global collective decisions. There is a tension between local and global collective decisions. In particular, we show that group formation and collective...

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Memetics & Voting: How Nature May Make us Public Spirited

Conley, John P.; Wooders, Myrna - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2005

We consider the classic puzzle of why people turn out for elections in substantial numbers even though formal analysis strongly suggests that rational agents would not vote. If one assumes that voters do not make systematic mistakes, the most plausible explanation seems to be that agents receive...

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