With the objective of promoting sustainable development in Santiago de Chile, this paper explores current challenges and possible future trends of urban governance from a local stakeholder point of view. Its empirical base is an online survey conducted among local stakeholders in spring 2009. It...

This paper asks: What is the effect of government policy on output and inequality in an environment with education and labor-supply decisions? The answer is given in a general equilibrium model, consistent with the post 1960s facts on male wage inequality and labor supply in the U.S. In the...

The democratic accountability of policymaking institutions which are autonomous within delegated mandates has not received as much attention as their independence. We analyze in a theoretical model the effects of accountability in the form of possible overriding of economic policy decisions by...