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Despite the importance of the Bologna process for the mobility of students, and the further mobility of graduates, as well as for peace, growth and welfare in that area, nothing has been decided so far for the financing of internationally mobile students, so that the burden of that financing,...
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This paper assesses the role of the public sector in adaptation to climate change. We first offer a definition and categorisation of climate change adaptation. We then consider the primary economic principles that can guide the assignment of adaptation tasks to either the private or the public...
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through alternative decision-making institutions: Both majority rule and exogenous tax rules can improve efficiency. … decreasing efficiency, which becomes more severe as the centralized budget increases. We also analyze partial ex-ante commitment …
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several case studies and concludes that sometimes the EU intervention is not always justified (such as regulation of mobile … regulation, international roaming, spectrum). The paper calls for a more open debate of the concept and the means to achieve the … extreme caution, especially in the context of the deployment of NGA, given the uncertainty on the best form of regulation. …
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The paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on governance employing four indicators of governance and five measures of decentralization. Depending on data availability, crosssections for a maximum of 129 countries are estimated. Results for a panel of about 70 countries over the period...
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This paper sheds light on possible explanations for the success and sustainability of the piqueteros social movement in Argentina, developed from a comparative perspective based on Latin America. I show which institutional arrangements, political actors, and configurations of power contributed...
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the interaction between political institutions, business and labor power, and changing ideas about the role of public and … private benefits, the enduring weight of Canadian-style federalism mitigated the impact of interest groups, especially … closer attention to the interaction between political institutions, interest group mobilization, and changing ideas about the …
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The paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on governance employing four indicators of governance and five measures of decentralization. Depending on data availability, crosssections for a maximum of 129 countries are estimated. Results for a panel of about 70 countries over the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005227332
This paper assesses the role of the public sector in adaptation to climate change. We first offer a definition and categorisation of climate change adaptation. We then consider the primary economic principles that can guide the assignment of adaptation tasks to either the private or the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327207