Urban development thrives from technology inflows, which refers to the transfer of high-value technology from various cities to local recipients. The asymmetry of technical information-rooted in the tacit knowledge inherent in technology-mandates that technology transfer is heavily dependent on...

This paper examines the causal relationship between insurance market penetration and per capita economic growth in 19 Eurozone countries for the period 1980-2014. We use three different indicators of insurance market penetration (IMP), namely life insurance penetration, non-life insurance...

Background: This study examines the relationship between insurance market density (IMD) and economic growth. Methods: We employed Granger causality technique in 19 Eurozone countries for the period 1980-2014. We use three different indicators of IMD, namely life insurance density, non-life...

Nicht nur die direkte finanzielle Unterstützung von Studierenden, sondern auch Realtransfers wie der Zugang zu verbilligtem Wohnen und Verpflegung in Mensen haben umverteilende Wirkung. Bekannt ist, dass Kinder aus bildungsfernen Elternhäusern an den Hochschulen stark unterrepräsentiert sind....

Nach einer Welle der Privatisierung öffentlicher Dienstleistungen in den 1980er und 1990er Jahren möchten viele Gemeinden jetzt wieder stärker die Daseinsvorsorge direkt gestalten. Dabei stellt sich die Frage „privat oder staatlich“ nur bei solchen Angeboten, die tatsächlich öffentliche...

Around nine countries currently use a national income contingent loan (ICL) scheme for higher education tuition using the income tax system. Increased international interest in ICL validates an examination of its costs and benefits relative to the traditional financing system,...

Although a public long-term care (LTC) program is a potentially important factor for the labor supply of female informal caregivers, there are only a handful of individual-level studies on this topic and the macro-level impacts of LTC programs are still largely unknown. Exploiting the...

The main goal of collective punishment (CP) is the deterrence of future "wrong-doing" by freedom fighters or terrorists, protesters against an authoritative government, polluters, students playing pranks on their teacher, football teams lacking enthusiasm, or soldiers showing cowardice to the...

A principal distributes an indivisible good to budget‐constrained agents when both valuation and budget are agents' private information. The principal can verify an agent's budget at a cost. The welfare‐maximizing mechanism can be implemented via a two‐stage scheme. First, agents report...