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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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Straßenverkehrssicherheit als wichtige Voraussetzung für nachhaltige Mobilität
Assing, Kai; Höhnscheid, Karl-Josef; Kranz, Thomas; … - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377924
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How to Protect Future Generations Using Tax Base Restrictions
Rangel, Antonio - 2002
This paper studies constitutional restrictions on the tax base that protect future generations from expropriation and improve the optimality of investment in Intergenerational Public Goods (IPGs). The choice of the tax base matters because it affects how intergenerational (IG) spillovers are...
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Sorting Charles Tiebout : the construction and stabilization of postwar public good theory
Singleton, John D. - 2013
A substantial and diverse literature in economics traces its intellectual roots to Charles Tiebout's 1956 article, "The Pure Theory of Local Expenditure." Its present recognition frequently attributed to originating the idea of "voting with your feet," however, contrasts sharply with its...
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Size and soft budget constraints
Crivelli, Ernesto; Staal, Klaas - 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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It's good weather for more government : the effect of weather on fiscal policy
Souza, Gustavo Moreira de - 2022
increase in expenditure is directed towards a larger police and safety budget. This result is compatible with a model of … complementarity between consumption and public goods. In the model, high-income voters support an increase in safety budget because …
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Ageing Municipalities, Gerontocracy and Fiscal Competition
Montén, Anna - 2008
We develop a simple model of fiscal competition among ageing municipalities. When ageing advances, gerontocracies and social planners gradually substitute publicly provided goods aimed at the mobile young population for publicly provided goods for the elderly. This substitution process does not...
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Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods : Evidence from U.S. Municipalities and School Districts, 2000-2010
Lee, Soomi - 2016
This paper examines the claim that ethnic heterogeneity reduces government spending on various local public goods. Our analysis suggests that higher ethnic heterogeneity does not necessarily reduce local public spending due to two factors: (1) the low price elasticity of demand for local public...
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Political Reform in China : Elections, Public Goods and Income Distribution
Martinez-Bravo, Monica; Padró i Miquel, Gerard; Qian, Nancy - 2014
This study investigates the effects of introducing elections on public good expenditures, income distribution and land use in rural China. We collect a large and unique survey to document the history of political reforms and economic policies and exploit the staggered timing of the introduction...
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Public Goods as a Screening Mechanism
Hoyt, William H.; Lee, Kangoh - 1998
Court decisions in the past twenty years such as Southern Burlington County NAACP v. Mount Laurel Associated, as well as recent legislation, have made exclusionary zoning laws based on race illegal and have limited, at least in many states, the legality of exclusionary zoning based on income....
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