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Two-tier public provision: Comparing public systems

Lülfesmann, Christoph; Myers, Gordon M. - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 11, pp. 1263-1271

The paper considers a two-tier institution in which government provides public services, but individuals can opt out of public provision (but not taxes). Funding for the public service is chosen endogenously by majority vote, and we first provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a...

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Les mécanismes à l’origine de la corruption : une analyse sur micro-données africaines

Lavallée, Emmanuelle; Razafindrakoto, Mireille; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

Who are the most prone to pay bribes? Who are angled for bribes? Who pay? This article explores these issues in sub-Saharan Africa, an area of the world where corruption is widespread. This paper empirical basis is a rich collection of comparable data provided by the Afrobarometer surveys...

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Public enterprises, policy adoption and planning: Three welfare propositions

Bo, Chiara Del; Florio, Massimo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

Public enterprises are production units of goods or services under government control. In spite of wide privatizations in the last two decades, public provision in this form can be observed in many countries and sectors, particularly in education, health, transport, energy and environment. This...

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Demographic Transition and Public Policy: Chile 1850-2000

Dintrans, Pablo Villalobos - In: Revista de Analisis Economico – Economic Analysis Review 29 (2014) 1, pp. 77-110

Chile has experienced tremendous changes over the past centuries. Notwithstanding the importance of many of these transformations, the demographic change has been crucial, given its influence on the whole Chilean Society. These paper inquiries into the effects of the Chilean demographic...

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Baumol’s cost disease and the sustainability of the welfare state

Andersen, Torben M; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

If productivity increases more slowly for services than for manufactured goods, then services suffer from Baumol’s cost disease and tend to become relatively more costly over time. Since the welfare state in all countries is an important supplier of tax financed services, this translates into...

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Endowment effect theory, prediction bias and publicly provided goods – an experimental study

Bischoff, Ivo - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2006

Many studies report on a systematic disparity between the willingness to pay for a certain good (WTP) and the willingness to accept retribution payments in exchange for giving up this good (WTA). Thaler (1980) employs prospect theory to explain this disparity. The literature contains two...

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Endowment effect theory, prediction bias and publicly provided goods: an experimental study

Bischoff, Ivo - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 39 (2008) 3, pp. 283-296

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Regulation and the cost of childcare

Gorry, Devon; Thomas, Diana Weinert - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 41, pp. 4138-4147

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Strategic interaction vs. regulatory compliance among regulated utilities: The Swedish water sector

Lundin, Erik - 2013

This study provides the first empirical test of strategic interactions in the pricing decisions of regulated utilities …. Since publicly owned water utilities in Sweden are governed by a cost-of-service regulation, prices in neighboring … neighboring utilities' prices as benchmarks for costs or as behaviorally based reference prices, utilities will face the risk of …

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Productive efficiency and ownership when market restructuring affects production technologies

Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria; Rechlitz, Julia - 2017

public and private utilities' efficiency …

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