Search Results - subject:"‘Crowding out’"

Growing like Germany : local public debt, local banks, low private investment

Hoffmann, Mathias; Stewen, Iryna; Stiefel, Michael - 2023 - Revised version, December 2023

firms in Germany's locally segmented credit markets. The ensuing crowding out was made worse by increased municipal …

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Does government spending crowd out voluntary labor and donations? : there is little evidence that government spending crowds out private charitable donations of time and money

Bredtmann, Julia; Martínez Flores, Fernanda - 2023

that comprehensive government spending might crowd out private charitable donations. If perfect crowding out occurs, then … welfare unaltered. Understanding the magnitude and the causes of crowding out is crucial from a policy perspective, as … crowding out represents a hidden cost to public spending and can thus have significant consequences for government policies …

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The efficiency of state aid for the deployment of high-speed broadband : evidence from the French market

Bourreau, Marc; Grzybowski, Lukasz; Muñoz-Acevedo, Ángela - 2023

In this paper, we evaluate the efficiency of the French State aid plan for broadband deployment, the Plan France Très Haut Débit. According to State aid rules, public subsidies should not be substitute for private investment and should target areas with market failures. We estimate a...

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Do farmers need to be paid to grow milkweed for monarchs or will they volunteer if it is easy enough?

Thakur, Tiesta; Hurley, Terrance M. - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 45 (2023) 2, pp. 1008-1024

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Incentive and signaling effects of bonus payments : an experiment in a company

Deversi, Marvin; Spantig, Lisa - 2023

Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is limited as their use signals the prevalence of free-riding among employees. This paper tests this hypothesis experimentally, using a sample of managers and employees from a...

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"Let them eat cake" : drought, peasant uprisings, and demand for institutional change in the French revolution

Waldinger, Maria - 2023

The paper studies whether a drought in 1788 affected the outbreak of peasant revolts during the French Revolution. I construct a community-level data set with information on local drought severity and peasant uprisings in 1789. Results indicate that those more affected by the drought more often...

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