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Zoning in cities with traffic congestion and agglomeration economies
Rhee, Hyok-Joo; Yu, Sanggyun; Hirte, Georg - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 44 (2014) C, pp. 82-93
We analyze land use regulations in cities with traffic congestion and production spillovers. Land is allocated between residential and industrial uses inside the city boundary or between urban and rural uses at the city boundary. The production is dispersed over the city, and people and firms...
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Inefficient at any level : a comparative efficiency argument for complete elimination of property transfer duties and insurance taxes
Nassios, Jason; Giesecke, James A. D. - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317508
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OPTIMAL REGULATION AND GROWTH IN A NATURAL-RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY
Tamarit, José Ramón Ruiz; Moreno, Manuel Sánchez - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2006
the optimal harvesting rate that allows for sustained long-run optimal growth, which is upper-bounded by the biological …
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Income taxes, subsidies to education, and investments in human capital
Mendolicchio, Concetta; Paolini, Dimitri; Pietra, Tito - 2010 - Version: January 24, 2010
We study a two-sector economy with investments in human and physical capital and imperfect labor markets. Human and physical capital are heterogeneous. Workers and firms endogenously select the sector they are active in, and choose the amount of their sector-specific investments in human and...
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Efficiency measurement in the Spanish cadastral units through DEA
Ferrera, José Manuel Cordero; Chaparro, Francisco Pedraja - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2009
This paper proposes an approach to measure efficiency of a set of units operating in an administrative public service … efficiency levels of these offices. Subsequently, a second stage model based on bootstrap techniques is applied in order to … affect the estimated efficiency measures. …
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Fiscal federalism and foreign transfers : does inter-jurisdictional competition increase foreign aid effectiveness?
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2010
effectiveness. For this purpose we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering different measures of fiscal …. -- Foreign Aid ; Growth ; Interjurisdictional Competition …
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Direct democracy and local government efficiency
Asatryan, Zareh; De Witte, Kristof - 2014
public goods, and applying a fully non-parametric approach to estimate local government overall efficiency, the analysis … shows that more direct democratic activity is associated with higher government efficiency. This result suggests that more …
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The Hierarchy of Public Governance : Resource Allocation vs Bureaucratic Inefficiency
Wang, Susheng - 2007
Should a social program be run at a higher or lower level of government? We consider a government-run program supplying a private good to consumers. We focus on a tradeoff between the advantage of a high level of government in resource allocation and its disadvantage in consumer information. We...
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Efficient Local Government Service Provision : The Role of Privatization and Public Sector Unions
Jerch, Rhiannon - 2017
Local governments spend roughly $1.6 trillion per year to provide a variety of public services ranging from police and fire protection to public schools and public transit. However, we know little about public sector's productivity in delivering key services. To understand the productivity both...
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An Efficiency Rationale for Expenditure Equalization
Petchey, Jeffrey D. - 2014
This paper provides an efficiency rationale for expenditure equalization in federations. It does so by developing a … provides an efficiency rationale for expenditure equalization. Using examples it is shown that Australian equalization gets … expenditure equalization in the 'right' direction from an efficiency perspective; from low to high cost states. This is not to say …
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