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The political economy of higher education finance : how information and design affect public preferences for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019

Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...

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The political economy of higher education finance : how information and design affect public preferences for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019

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The political economy of higher education finance : how information and design affect public preferences for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985922

The exchange theory of web3 governance (or ‘blockchains without romance’)

Potts, Jason; Allen, Darcy W E; Berg, Chris; Lane, Aaron M. - 2022

Blockchains have enabled innovation in distributed economic institutions, such as money (e.g. cryptocurrencies) and markets (e.g. DEXs), but also innovations in distributed governance, such as DAOs, and new forms of collective choice. Yet we still lack a general theory of blockchain governance....

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Political Economy of Infrastructure Investment

Ghosh, Arghya; Meagher, Kieron - 2008

of infrastructure choice based upon consumer preferences derived from spatial competition models. In this setting … extending the analysis to competition on the circle. Analysis of market structure, consumer participation, entry and transport … common. Our results suggest that in less developed countries competition enhancing policies are a key prerequisite for public …

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Crypto Public Choice

Berg, Alastair; Berg, Chris; Novak, Mikayla - 2018

This paper presents ‘crypto public choice’ which examines the economics of collective decision making in the functioning of blockchain protocols and among related communities of users. We introduce the blockchain community to public choice theory and show how it can be applied to the study...

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Minority Voting and Public Project Provision

Gersbach, Hans - 2011

We propose a two-stage process called minority voting to allocate public projects in a polity. In the first period, a society decides by a simple majority decision whether to provide the public project. If the proposal in the first period is rejected, the process ends. Otherwise the process...

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Precommitted Government Spending and Partisan Politics

Bohn, Henning - 2011

This paper analyzes government commitments to ongoing spending programs that require future outlays. Spending commitments are important for understanding partisan politics because they constrain future governments. In a model with one government good, a “stubborn liberal” policy maker can...

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The Political Resource Curse

Brollo, Fernanda - 2010

The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence...

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The political resource curse

Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - 2010

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