'public finance', 'political economy', 'growth theory', 'human capital theory', and 'innovation-driven growth theory …'.The first project reveals that the prevailing notion of education externalities is misleading and therefore empirical … externalities of education according to Lucas (1988) are likely to be internalized on the labor market. Education is recognized as a …

of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader … conducted. A distinction is made between two types of appropriation externalities: those that are restricted to a single period …

externalities, however, efficiency may no longer be guaranteed.This dissertation shows that a modification of Ausubel & Milgrom … presence of externalities, the resulting auction possessesan efficient Nash equilibrium in pure strategies leading to a core … strategy. The auction is augmented to includeexplicitly the auctioneer's preferences over final outcomes. Externalities …

standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …

subsectors, at least not given the used identification strategy. This could be due to the fact that this theory regards the …

records from the 1994-95 school year untilthe 2003-04 school year. The first essay explores promotion rates of men and womento … school principal, a position that requires certification. I find ignoring gender differences in desire for promotion yields … the quality ofthe entrants into a profession. Theory suggests that requiring minimum competencystandards truncates the low …

productivity. It takes the notion of local human capital externalities as its core theoretical concept, which contends that … respect to Germany, the notion of local human capital externalities is of potential relevance since average levels of … regional productivity can be assigned to local human capital externalities and sheds light on the microeconomic mechanisms …

promoting schoold in the rural areas – particularly the Secondary School in Oniceni, Suceava County. In our approach, we will … focus on a series of considerations that belong to the social and family context, when chosing school. …

full-text of this article is not available in ORA at this time. Citation: Michie, J. (1997). 'Network externalities - the …