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Endogenous timing and income inequality in the voluntary provision of public goods : theory and experiment
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue; Kurosaka, Kengo - 2018
This paper investigates how the heterogenous incomes and preferences of potential donors affect the timing of contribution decisions when it is endogenously determined by contributors themselves. More specifically, we use a simple setting with two donors, Cobb-Douglas preferences, and complete...
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Search for a unique Nash equilibrium in two public goods games : mixed integer programming technique
Suzuki, Ken-ichi; Miyakoshi, Tatsuyoshi; Itaya, Jun-ichi; … - In: Applied economics letters 30 (2023) 12, pp. 1656-1660
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One-sided private provision of public goods with implicit Lindahl pricing
Meier, Volker - In: Journal of economics 110 (2013) 2, pp. 181-186
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Provision of public goods in a federalist country : Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities … competition. -- DEA ; efficiency measurement ; federalism ; fiscal equalization ; public finance ; Switzerland ; Tiebout …
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The political economy of efficient public good provision : evidence from Flemish libraries using a generalised conditional efficiency framework
De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872845
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Evaluating efficiency-effectiveness-equality trade-offs : a data envelopment analysis approach
Golany, Boaz - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 41 (1995) 7, pp. 1172-1184
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
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Improving efficiency through consolidation of jurisdictions? : evidence from the Cantons of Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe K.; Elias, George; Zweifel, Peter - 2012
Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the years 2000 to 2004. Aggregate output performance indicators for four local government activities … (administration, education, health, and transportation) are used to measure technical and scale efficiency and to derive DEA scores … good provision while suggesting the possibility of Tiebout competition. -- DEA ; efficiency measurement ; economies of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743175
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The Political Economy of Efficient Public Good Provision : Evidence from Flemish Libraries Using a Generalised Conditional Efficiency Framework
De Witte, K.; Geys, Benny - 2011
Provision of most public goods (e.g., health care, library services, education, utilities) can be characterised by a two-stage ‘production’ process. The first stage translates basic inputs (e.g., labour and capital) into service potential (e.g., opening hours), while the second stage...
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A theory of reciprocity
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
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