International organizations promote privatization as precondition for economic development. But is there really too little privatization? This political economy model asks for the incentives of governments to privatize or restructure a state-owned firm. Different government types are compared to...

Die kommunalen Wohnungsgesellschaften in Deutschland verfügen noch über einen Bestand von 2,3 Millionen Wohnungen. Diese Wohnungen befinden sich vor allem in Großstädten, womit auch der kommunale Wohnungsbestand vom Immobilienmarktboom seit 2000 profitiert. In den 2000er Jahren wurde der...

In this study an attempt has been made to assess the potential of land as a municipal financing tool in four Indian cities, to enable better public service delivery and attainment of the MDGs. The institutional arrangements for land use are fragmented in India's cities between the urban...

In many cases, the expected efficiency advantages of public-private partnership (PPP) projects as a specific form of infrastructure provision did not materialize ex post. From a Public Choice perspective, one simple explanation for many of the problems surrounding the governance of PPPs is that...

Die FIFA Fußball-WM 2006 hat in Deutschland einen Boom bei Stadioninvestitionenausgelöst. Eine zweite Welle ist derzeit bei mittelgroßen Projekten zu beobachten, mit denenkleinere Bundesligisten und Zweitligisten den Anschluss an die Top-Klubs zu halten versuchen.[...]

Spätestens die Vergabe der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006 hat in Deutschland einenSportstadien-Bauboom verursacht. Dieser erscheint auch nötig, um die veraltete deutsche Stadion-Infrastrukturwieder internationalen Standards anzugleichen. Jedoch treffen diese gestiegenen Investitionswünsche...

A perennial debate worldwide over housing aid policy focuses on whether the government should provide housing vouchers or subsidized public housing units. To complement the empirically- dominated literature, this paper builds a general equilibrium model that merges urban land use (monocentric...

Hosting the 2006 FIFA World Championship induced a boom in stadium investments in Germany. A second wave of smaller arena constructions can currently be observed across the country. These projects are promoted by smaller clubs of the first and the second Bundesliga, aiming not to fall behind the...

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...

In this study an attempt has been made to assess the potential of land as a municipal financing tool in four Indian cities, to enable better public service delivery and attainment of the MDGs. The institutional arrangements for land use are fragmented in India's cities between the urban...