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No decline in investment in public-sector energy and water supply

Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria; Stiel, Caroline - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 42/43, pp. 577-583

A considerable share of public investment comes not only from public budgets but also from public utility companies. One major area of investment is energy and water supply, where the utility companies have substantial fixed assets in the form of distribution infrastructure. Using new microdata...

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Kein Rückgang der Investitionen in der kommunalen Energie- und Wasserversorgung

Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria; Stiel, Caroline - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 43, pp. 1041-1047

Einen beachtlichen Anteil öffentlicher Investitionen tätigen - außerhalb der öffentlichen Haushalte - kommunale Unternehmen, beispielsweise Stadtwerke. Ein bedeutender Investitionsbereich ist die Energie- und Wasserversorgung, da die Unternehmen über beträchtliche Sachanlagen in der...

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Funding and operation of stadiums and arenas beside high-class leagues

Gundel, Stephan; Hecker, Achim - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2006

, we examine which funding and operating models could improve the endowment with stadiums and arenas in an efficiency … four criteria to assess the efficiency of any stadium or arena construction and operation models, namely funding efficiency …, cost efficiency, management efficiency and allocation efficiency. (Note: This paper is in German.) …

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Funding and operation of stadiums and arenas beside high-class leagues

Gundel, Stephan; Hecker, Achim - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE - 2006

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School Quality and School Location

Terry O`Shaughnessy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

This paper presents a model of school choice with peer effects and scale economies within schools. Parents` perception of school quality depends on resources and on the characteristics of the student body. A network of local schools of uniform quality will be optimal, even though different...

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Crumbling Infrastructure, Crumbling Democracy : Infrastructure Privatization Contracts and Their Effects on State and Local Governance

Dannin, Ellen - 2011

Key arguments for privatizing public infrastructure range from providing money so cash-strapped governments can fix crumbling infrastructure and build much needed new infrastructure to shifting future financial risk from the public to a private contractor. The reality, though, is far different....

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Public-Private-People Partnership as a New Financing Model for Infrastructure Development : A Conceptual Framework

Sihombing, Lukas B.; Santos, Ahmad; Wibowo, Andreas - 2019

One of the financing schemes in providing an infrastructure project is a public-private-partnership (PPP). PPP is an implementation option and infrastructure service that provides incremental benefits as well as private financing access to promote the government. This study aims to provide a new...

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Kein Rückgang der Investitionen in der kommunalen Energie- und Wasserversorgung

Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria; Stiel, Caroline - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 82 (2015) 43, pp. 1041-1047

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Financing Confederation Revisited: The Economic State of the Federation

Boadway, Robin - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

important role in improving the performance of the Canadian economy with respect to both equity and efficiency. But he also … the national objectives of equity and efficiency. However, he sees little evidence that this is happening, and argues that …

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Desbordamiento espacial de la productividad de las infraestructuras: una aplicación con fronteras estocásticas.

RODRÍGUEZ VÁLEZ, J.; ARIAS SAMPEDRO, C. - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 22 (2004) Diciembre, pp. 1-16

stochastic frontier allows for the modeling of regional heterogeneity though different degrees of regional efficiency …. Additionally, in the stochastic frontier framework it is possible to analyze the role of economic variables in regional efficiency …. A variable of particular interest for the explanation of efficiency is the ratio of public to private capital. We claim …

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