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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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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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634548
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669616
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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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THE CASE FOR DEFENCE
Hartley, Keith - In: Defence and Peace Economics 21 (2010) 5-6, pp. 409-426
What is the case for defence and is it a worthwhile investment? This question is addressed for two contrasting nations, namely, the UK and New Zealand. Economists have a set of standard analytical tools for addressing the question but they are difficult to operationalise. This paper provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009215181
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The Natural Economic Advantage of Dictatorship over Democracy: A “Gresham's Law” of Governance
Azfar, Omar; Mcguire, Martin - In: International Tax and Public Finance 9 (2002) 4, pp. 451-463
We show that when democratic and autocratic governments peacefully compete for governance over the same jurisdiction the autocratic has a natural advantage. The autocratic government, which unambiguously reduces welfare for everyone except the autocrat, will drive the competing democratic...
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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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