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Four centuries of fiscal decentralisation in the Netherlands in view of different economic theoretic perspectives
Bos, Frits - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The history of the Netherlands reveals major shifts from centralisation of government tasks towards decentralisation and vice versa. In the seventeenth century, the Republic of United Provinces was the first federal state in modern history. Many transformations later the Kingdom of the...
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Olson’s Logic of Collective Action at Fifty
Pecorino, Paul - 2014
In the 50 years since its publication, Mancur Olson's Logic of Collective Action has had an enormous impact on the academic literature in both economics and political science. In this review essay, I discuss Olson's work in light of the ensuing research, particularly developments in the...
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Lotteries, Public Good Provision and the Degree of Rivalry
Pecorino, Paul; Temimi, Akram - 2008
Under the standard summation technology, pure public goods can be provided via the direct contributions mechanism, even in an arbitrarily large group. However, if the public good exhibits any degree of rivalry, individual consumption of the public good will fall to zero as group size grows...
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Confusion of Group-Interest and Self-Interest in Parochial Cooperation on Behalf of a Group
Baron, Jonathan - 2000
People often sacrifice their self-interest for a group to which they belong, even when outsiders are harmed so that the sacrifice has no net benefit. Two experiments (conducted on the World Wide Web) suggest that people do this, in part, because they think that cooperation on behalf of the group...
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Lotteries, Group Size and Public Good Provision
Pecorino, Paul; Temimi, Akram - 2006
Morgan (2000) has shown that lotteries are potentially an effective mechanism for the provision of public goods. In particular, he has shown that lotteries lead to a level of provision above the level provided by the voluntary contributions mechanism. In this paper, we analyze the effect of...
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The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2016
We propose a new nonparametric approach to estimate the production function for housing. Our estimation treats output … competitive house builders. For parcels of a given size, we compute housing by summing across the marginal products of non … housing across locations. We implement our methodology on newly-built single-family homes in France. We find that the …
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Retail City: The Relationship between Place Attractiveness and Accessibility to Shops
Öner, Özge - 2015
attractiveness is proxied by a Q ratio for Swedish housing investment based on Tobin's Q. Access to stores within municipal market …
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Retail city : the relationship between place attractiveness and accessibility to shops
Öner, Özge - 2015
attractiveness is proxied by a Q ratio for Swedish housing investment based on Tobin's Q. Access to stores within municipal market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467095
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Housing for all in India
De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Dek, Marnix - 2020
Housing is key for well-being and for spatial and social mobility. In India, the housing market is characterised by … excess demand for affordable dwellings, a small rental market and an oversupply of high-end housing, especially in urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259039
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The production function for housing : evidence from France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2016
We propose a new nonparametric approach to estimate the production function for housing. Our estimation treats output … competitive house builders. For parcels of a given size, we compute housing by summing across the marginal products of non … housing across locations. We implement our methodology on newly-built single-family homes in France. We find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581668