Quangos and public entrepreneurship are closely related. The economic theory of quangos allows us to develop a quango theory and highlight the effects of public entrepreneurship. By considering principal agent relations we show how public entrepreneurship of government and quango influence each...

Die demographische Entwicklung der letzten Jahrzehnte in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland sowie in den meisten Industriestaaten tritt immer mehr in den Fokus des öffentlichen Bewusstseins. Der Band "Infrastrukturprobleme bei Bevölkerungsrückgang", welcher anlässlich der Emeritierung von Prof....

This article is resting on the theoretical model of Braun (2003) describing the delegation modes for public funding of research in the principal-agent framework. It aims to show by using the conceptualisation of utility functions of principal and agents on the various levels, how different...