The article deals with an approach which is quite new for public administrationresearch, that of psychological analysis of public administration institutions,using the concept of social identity. Th e article focuses on the development of theapproach in psychology, and its applicability for...

This paper studies implementation in a principal-agent model of adverse selection. We explore ways in which the additional structure of principal agent models (compared to general implementaion models) simplifies the implementation problem. We develop a connection between the single crossing...

This study investigates whether models of forward-looking behavior explain the observed patterns of heavy drinking and smoking of men in late middle age in the Health and Retirement Study better than myopic models. We develop and estimate a sequence of nested models which differ by their degree...