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Publicly announced speed limit enforcement and its impact on road safety : evidence from the German Blitzmarathons
Molitor, Ramona - 2017
This paper studies a unique traffic law enforcement campaign in Germany and its impact on road safety. Key features of … change in road safety, we do not find that the reduction in traffic accidents persists beyond a Blitzmarathon-day. In terms …-indifferences estimations, we find an eight percent reduction in the number of traffic accidents and a nine percent reduction in the number of …
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The Concession Model as an Example for Public Private Partnership Projects in Germany : Analysis Based on the Herrentunnel and Warnowquerung Projects in Luebeck and Rostock (Das Ko...
Kirchner, Stefan - 2015
model to federal road projects and the focus on toll-based refinancing as well as the fact that toll-roads are unknown to …
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Looking for appropriate forms of intergovernmental transfers for municipalities in transition economies
Nam, Chang-woon; Parsche, Rüdiger - 2001
Intergovernmental transfers can be either conditional or unconditional with regard to the autonomy of local governments in spending such financial means. Although fiscal decentralisation has recently been quite pronounced in Eastern European transition countries, the dominance of a purpose- and...
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A Cluster Analysis on Sustained Global Competitiveness for European Countries
Kolluru, Mythili - 2020
The Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) developed by Xavier Salai-Martín, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, has been measuring the factors that drive the growth and prosperity since 2005. This paper focuses on grouping the European nations according to global competitiveness. It...
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Significance and Determination of Fees for Municipal Finance
Nam, Chang Woon; Kaltschuetz, Anita; Friedrich, Peter - 2021
The idea of fiscal decentralisation has become increasingly fashionable world-wide. But every country has unique features of the intergovernmental fiscal system. In general municipal expenditures are rapidly growing in European countries. On the other hand local tax increases are not easily...
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Development of Local Public Finance in Europe
Friedrich, Peter; Gwiazda, Joanna; Nam, Chang Woon - 2021
This paper investigates the development of local public finance in Germany, Switzerland, Poland and the United Kingdom. In this context important characteristics of municipal expenditures and revenues are examined in these countries. Differences in government structure (i.e. unitary or federal)...
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Implementation of European cohesion policy at the sub-national level : evidence from beneficiary data in Eastern Germany
Dettmer, Bianka; Sauer, Thomas - 2016
Regional governments' discretion in allocating structural funds is mainly limited by the competences of the Commission to control implementation and fiscal activities of decentralized governments. In this paper, we analyse implementation of ERDF funds in Eastern Germany in the financial...
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Die Finanzierung des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks
Herrmann, Karolin - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 93 (2013) 8, pp. 552-556
Seit Anfang dieses Jahres wird in Deutschland der neue Rundfunkbeitrag erhoben. Im Unterschied zur vorher geltenden Rundfunkgebühr bemisst sich die Höhe der neuen Rundfunkabgabe nicht mehr nach der Zahl der vorgehaltenen Rundfunkgeräte. Sie richtet sich vielmehr an den Haushalten bzw....
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Das ökonomische und politische Dilemma Europas
Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Abstract Englisch Apparently the European economic model being subjected to a double competition problem. On the one hand, there are enormous differences in the level of competitiveness of the various member countries of the euro area and the EU among themselves. In the long term this Problem...
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Subjective well-being and public policy
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2017
Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare on an individual as well as on a societal level. These determinants might not to be easily...
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