A szerte a világban - Magyarországon is - mind jobban terjedő szekták az utóbbi időben nemcsak a szociológusok vagy teológusok kutatási tárgyai, de a közgazdászok figyelmét is magukra vonták. Első pillantásra ugyanis nehezen fér össze a racionálisan cselekvő homo oeconomicus...

Az államháztartás elszámolási és információs rendszerének mai magyarországi álla pota nem ad módot a közösségi gazdálkodásba vont erőforrások felhasználásának megfelelő követésére, még kevésbé annak mérlegelésére, hogy az erőforrásokkal való gazdálkodás...

A lakáspolitika lényeges és gyors változáson ment keresztül Európában és fejlett világ más országaiban. A posztszocialista átmenet során Magyarországon is napi rendre kerültek a lakásszektor átalakításának olyan alapvető kérdései, mint az állam és piac szerepének...

This paper examines the effects of combining an international cap-and-trade scheme with national carbon taxes. We consider a two-country stochastic partial equilibrium model with log-normally distributed uncertainty. The situation is analogous to the situation where European countries impose...

We estimate the effect of state judiciary presence on rent extraction in Brazilian local governments. We measure rents as irregularities related to waste or corruption uncovered by auditors. Our unique dataset at the level of individual inspections allows us to separately examine extensive and...

This paper examines the effects of combining an international cap-and-trade scheme with national carbon taxes. We consider a two-country stochastic partial equilibrium model with log-normally distributed uncertainty. The situation is analogous to the situation where European countries impose...

This paper examines two drastic changes in the performance of local water associations in providing local public goods - appropriate levels of water table - in the reclamation system in the Powiat Pyrzyce in the Voivodship Zachodniopomorski in northwest Poland. Employing an institutional...

Unlike in developing countries, there tends to be no problem of access to water, electricity, and heating for private households in transition countries. However, transition countries have a considerable amount of low-income households, and the problem of affordability of these...

What triggers giving? We explore this in a randomized natural field experiment during the Salvation Army's annual campaign. Solicitors were at one or both of two main entrances to a supermarket, making the solicitation either easy or difficult to avoid. Additionally, solicitors were either...

Inflation-adjusted spending on means-tested subsidies have increased sharply since 2007, and most of this growth was due to changes in eligibility rules, and increases in subsidies per eligible person, rather than increases in the number of people who would have been eligible under pre-recession...