This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game with punishment in which subjects are given the opportunity to punish other group members (democratic punishment regime) and (ii) a public goods game environment where all group...

We report experimental results from three Colombian villages concerning the impact of a voting mechanism on interpersonal trust and trustworthiness. The vote is purely consultative in that participants are asked to declare in a secret ballot the most “appropriate” plan of action for...

The article proposes an enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment and dissolution of governmental units, giving autonomy to each individual as in a direct democracy. The mechanism is designed such that Pareto optimality is possible, in contrast to earlier models which make various...

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....

Local government units (LGU) are nowadays facing the very difficult and complicated task of making reasonable decisions regarding the transforming of SPZOZs into capital companies. First, it seems necessary to carry out a simulation of costs and advantages of the assumed models and solutions...

Die Finanzierung des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks in Deutschland steht in der Kritik. Vielfach wird bezweifelt, dass eine öffentliche Finanzierung von Rundfunkanstalten aus ordnungspolitischer Perspektive noch gerechtfertigt werden kann. Die Autoren argumentieren, dass es trotz...

The capacity to absorb European funds is part of a state complex integrated admninistrative capacity, a component of a state as a whole. The analysis in this article starts from the theoretical development by studying the reports made by the Romanian Government, correlated with the European...

During times of severe budget reductions and limitations, it becomes necessary to conduct an evaluation of the ability of the States to carry out the administrative process and to provide useful solutions developed through common policies at European level, necessary for costs abatement, towards...

The concept of sustainable development has been the most widely accepted concept of development in recent years. Its popularity has made it difficult to imagine a strategy paper not containing a reference to it. Because the concept of sustainable development is difficult to define, different...

This paper explores the short-and long-term effects on wages of absence from work for young highly attached skilled male and female workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes different types of career absence: unemployment, maternity leave for female workers, compulsory service for male...