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Straßenverkehrssicherheit als wichtige Voraussetzung für nachhaltige Mobilität

Assing, Kai; Höhnscheid, Karl-Josef; Kranz, Thomas; … - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly … 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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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Public Spending in Finland

Hemmings, Philip; Turner, David; Parviainen, Seija - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2003

Finland is committed to high quality and extensive public services and a high level of income redistribution. The heavy tax burden these commitments require is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain due to tax competition and the need to harmonise certain taxes with other EU countries. These...

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The Effectiveness of Public Expenditure in Portugal

Bronchi, Chiara - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2003

Over the past decade, Portugal has experienced imbalances and inefficiencies in the public sector that have impeded better economic performance. Though Portugal’s total spending as a proportion of GDP is somewhat below the EU average, the rapid and uncontrolled growth of its primary current...

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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 … - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 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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Too Expensive to Meter: The influence of transaction costs in transportation and communication

Levinson, David; Odlyzko, Andrew - Networks, Economics and Urban Systems Research Group … - 2007

traffic on roads continues to grow, and costs and public opposition limit new construction. Similar incentives towards fine …

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Decentralization in Developing Economies

Gadenne, Lucie; Singhal, Monica - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 581-604

Standard models of fiscal federalism suggest many benefits of decentralization in developing economies, and there has been a recent push toward decentralization around the world. However, developing countries presently still have less decentralization, particularly on the revenue side, than both...

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Size and soft budget constraints

Crivelli, Ernesto; Staal, Klaas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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...

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Size and Soft Budget Constraints

Crivelli, Ernesto; Staal, Klaas - James W. Martin School of Public Policy and … - 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 di_erent size provide local public goods with positive spillovers. Matching grants of a central government can induce...

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If You Build it, Will They Come?: Fiscal Federalism, Local Provision of Public Tourist Amenities, and the Vision Iowa Fund

Premkumar, Deepak; Quackenbush, Austin; Artz, Georgeanne; … - In: The Review of Regional Studies 43 (2013) 2,3, pp. 155-173

Iowa provided partial state funding to communities to build tourist attractions, a potential solution to local under-provision of public goods. A 10 percent increase in state funds increased county taxable retail sales by 0.1 percent. The State’s return from resulting sales tax revenue...

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Flexible Citizenship for a Global Society

Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

States are ill equipped to meet the challenges of a globalized world. The concept of citizenship with its rights and obligations, including the allegiance owed, is too narrowly defined to exist only between individuals and a state. Today, people identify with, and pay allegiance to, many...

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