The paper addresses the incentives of the public sector to implement new technologies in public service provision. I focus on the role of local governments under dentralization. Exploiting variation in the level of innovation in a large sample of US school districts, the impact of yardstick...

The tender process is an inseparable step of the contract award process in the public sector, and from the other point of view, it is one of the crucial elements of the core business of construction contractors. Reviewing previous research reveals a gap in the application of a project's detailed...

We measure risk aversion and patience in a non-incentivized way using a representative sample of the Hungarian adult population. We elicit risk aversion with a task similar to Gneezy and Potters (1997)'s investment game and find that females risk about 8.5 % less than males when we do not...