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What is 'Open'? An Economic Analysis of Open Institutions

Deng, Feng Frederic - 2014

By examining several different types of open institutions including open source software, open science, open square and (open) urban planning, this paper presents a general analysis of open institutional structure that is complementary to traditional proprietary mode. We argue that open...

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What Is “Open”? An Economic Analysis of Open Institutions

Deng, Feng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

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The construction of national identities

Almagro, Milena; Andrés-Cerezo, David - In: Theoretical Economics 15 (2020) 2, pp. 763-810

This paper explores the dynamics of nation-building policies and the conditions under which a state can promote a shared national identity on its territory. A forward-looking central government that internalizes identity dynamics shapes them by choosing the level of state centralization....

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Seeds, Patents and Power : The Shifting Foundation of Our Food System

Matson, James - 2014

Our food supply rests on a foundation of agricultural seed. As the world races to meet soaring food demand, the development and control of this fundamental genetic resource will be of critical concern to the entire human community. Seed, once treated as a shared public good and natural resource,...

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Revisit the Coase Conjecture : Monopoly, Durability, and Bundling in Urban Land Use

Deng, Feng Frederic - 2014

externality in land monopoly and analyzing the interaction between land market structure and the provision of local public goods …Although land and collective goods are bundled together, they could be provided separately. By studying intertemporal … depending on whether land and collective good are provided in a bundle: private rental, public rental, private ownership, public …

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A sub-national perspective on financing investment for Growth II : creating fiscal space for public investment ; the role of institutions

Vammalle, Camila; Ahrend, Rudiger; Hulbert, Claudia - 2014

Sub-national governments (SNGs) are key players for public investment in OECD countries, responsible for nearly two-thirds of it. At the same time, both the well-being of the population and economic performance depend on an adequate provision of public services, which require public facilities...

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A sub-national perspective on financing investment for Growth I : measuring fiscal space for public investment ; influences, evolution and perspectives

Hulbert, Claudia; Vammalle, Camila - 2014

Sub-national governments are key players for public investment, as they are responsible on average for 62% of total public investment in OECD countries. This article analyses the different factors affecting sub-national governments’ fiscal space for public investment. It proposes an indicator...

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Monopoly distortions in durability and multi-dimensional quality

Strausz, Roland - 2009

I show that Swan's (1970) independence result requires a multiplicative interaction between durability and all other … durability, even with constant marginal costs. Distortions in durability and other quality aspects are aligned exactly when the … marginal cost of quality do not increase too much with durability. …

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Land Use Deregulation and Housing Supply Under Institutional Frictions

Dutta, Arnab - 2023

This paper examines whether land use deregulation increases housing supply when there are additional institutional … frictions, such as slow updation of ownership records and unclear titles. India's urban land ceiling (ULC) laws, which put … ceiling limits on privately owned vacant land in the largest urban centers, were repealed during the 2000s. Using a difference …

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Power, Property Rights, and the Dynamics of Local Wealth Appropriation

Cao, Dan; Lagunoff, Roger; Xu, Yingqi - 2023

This paper examines the dynamic connections between local wealth inequality and the local politics of property rights within a federal system. We model a jurisdiction comprising a politically dominant in-group and a marginalized out-group. At each date, the jurisdiction tries to redistribute...

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