Many countries are implementing or at least considering policies to counter increasingly certain negative impacts from climate change. A large amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its mitigation, as well as to the design of policies, such as the...

Investments in fiscal capacity?economic institutions for tax compliance?are an important feature of economic development. This paper develops a dynamic model to study the evolution of fiscal capacity over time. We contrast a social planner's investment path with politically feasible paths. Three...

There is a certain connection between education and economic competitiveness. The relation between these two concepts is easy to intuit. On the medium and long term investments in education generate a strong increase in a country’s level of economic competitiveness. Through education the human...

This study elicits individual preferences for reducing morbidity and mortality risk in the context of an infectious disease (campylobacter) using choice experiments. Respondents are in the survey asked to choose between different policies that, in addition to the two health risks, also vary with...

In this paper I examine the influence which a population of different behavioral types may have on the provision of public goods. In particular, the population or subject pool consists of three behavioral types: myopic selfish agents, enlightened selfish agents and ethically motivated agents. I...

Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of...

Настоящее исследование посвящено методологическим аспектам Теории опекаемых благ, модификации двух либеральных принципов австрийской...

Настоящий доклад посвящен некоторым аспектам теории «опекаемых благ» в контексте эффективного и неэффективного равновесия. В работе представлены особенности...

В настоящем докладе представлена попытка создания новой экономической методологии, предполагающей взаимодействие рыночной экономики с государственной...

Настоящий доклад посвящен некоторым аспектам теории опекаемых благ в контексте эффективного и неэффективного равновесия. Представлены особенности опекаемых...