Using the budget-based scheme approach developed by Kirby et.al. (1991) and Reichelstein (1992), this paper establishes the optimal policy function in order to control hidden actions from managers of Public Water Utilities (PWU) regarding investments that deviate from the Optimized Business Plan...

Die Energiewende in Deutschland verlangt von den Verteilnetzbetreibern erhebliche neue Investitionen. Dies ist bei der Regulierung der Netzentgelte hinreichend zu berücksichtigen. Hier sind neben den vorhandenen Anreizen zur Kosteneffizienz auch geeignete Anreize zur dynamischen Effizienz im...

Europe faces a twofold economic challenge. Post crisis, Europe still suffers from weak confidence, with would-be investors across Europe sitting on ample liquidity but afraid to invest, while deleveraging goes on in both the public and private sector. From a structural point of view Europe faces...

The objective of this paper is to empirically assess the recently introduced models of subsidy competition based on the classical oligopoly theories, using both cross-sectional and panel data. Three crucial scenarios (including coordination, weak competition, and fierce competition) are tested...

Ghana has a relatively good international reputation with respect to political stability and macroeconomic reforms. However, its success with developing the private sector and attracting investment has at best been mixed. Therefore the new government that came into power in 2001 proclaimed a...

Host country governments often grant investment incentives to foreign firms locating in their territories. We show that such preferential treatment of foreign firms can facilitate transfer of foreign technology, induce entry by the local firm, and increase host country welfare. However, this...

This paper attempts to estimate the causal effect of public capital stock on production using Japanese prefectural data. We first articulate the difficulty of consistently estimating the regional-level production function with public capital due to the endogeneity of the public capital stock...

Seit Anfang 1991 arbeiten das Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin, das Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel und das Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle im Auftrag des Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft an einem Forschungsprojekt, das sich mit dem gesamtwirtschaftlichen und...