A költségvetési kiadások szerkezetének radikális átrendezésével járó államháztartási reformot jelentős társadalmi és politikai ellenállás fogadta. Míg az érdekeikben sértett csoportok elégedetlenségében nincs semmi meglepő, paradox jelenség, hogy sokszor azok is...

Based on a unique data set on Russian city budgets, this paper shows that revenue sharing between regional and local governments provides local governments with no incentive to increase tax base or provide public goods. Any change in local government’s own revenues is almost entirely offset by...

We consider abstract social systems of private property, made of n individuals endowed with non-paternalistic interdependent preferences, who interact through exchanges on competitive markets and Pareto-efficient lumpsum transfers. The transfers follow from a distributive liberal social contract...

Based on unique data set on Russian city budgets, this paper shows that revenue sharing between regional and local governments provides local governments with no incentive to increase tax base or provide public goods. Any change in local government’s own revenues is almost entirely offset by...

Az államháztartás elszámolási és információs rendszerének mai magyarországi álla pota nem ad módot a közösségi gazdálkodásba vont erőforrások felhasználásának megfelelő követésére, még kevésbé annak mérlegelésére, hogy az erőforrásokkal való gazdálkodás...

The matter of services can be found more in the specialised literature and more frequently, particularly during the last half of the century- taking into account, on the one hand, the significant structural mutations that have been taking place in the economic activity, mutations which have led...

We conduct a field experiment involving real purchasing decisions in a large supermarket chain to test the effect of different regulatory interventions aiming to induce a more climateâ€friendly diet on intrinsic motivation. Focusing on shoppers who prefer the dirty variety, we compare...

La pérdida de importancia económica de la caficultura en Colombia, tanto en el contexto nacional como en el internacional, se explica, principalmente, por la caída dramática de su productividad; el consiguiente empobrecimiento de los caficultores, así como por el envejecimiento de estos y de...

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

Club goods are an important category of collective goods. However, unlike public goods, very few experiments address the issue of the provision of club goods, and no studies have specifically explored a field case. In this experiment, a membership fee is introduced to improve the successful...