We use the 1952 Swedish municipal amalgamation reform to study free-riding and the common pool problem in politics. We expect municipalities that were affected by the reform to increase their debt in anticipation of a merger, and this effect to be larger if they were merged with many other...

In 2000 the Mozambican government initiated a process of formally recognizing traditional leaders both as representatives of local community interests and as assistants of local state organs. Twenty-five years after the FRELIMO government abolished the formal power of traditional leaders, the...

Transformation Towards a new Public Administration of the Network UtilitiesDuring the 1980s and 1990s privatisation and deregulation movements have been shaken up the European network industries-telecommunication, electricity and railways. These reforms did affect also those parts of the public...

Die Kommunen haben schon seit langem strukturelle Finanzierungsprobleme. Wie wirkt sich das auf die kommunale Verschuldung aus? Der Autor setzt in seinem Beitrag auf vier Ebenen an: den Konsequenzen aus der Doppikeinführung, der Umsetzung eines kommunalen Debt Managements, den Veränderungen im...

[This document was requested by the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control. It designated Mr Brian Hayes (MEP) to follow the study.] - The recent European crisis has put the issue of government efficiency high on national policy agendas. Policy measures that result in a reduction...

Die soziale Selbstverwaltung hat maßgeblich dazu beigetragen, dass die deutschen Sozialversicherungen mehr sind als wirtschaftlich handelnde Unternehmungen. Vor allem hat die Selbstverwaltung die Funktion, die Betroffenen an den Entscheidungen ihrer Kassen zu beteiligen. Diese spezielle Form...

This book is an attempt of documenting the results from interdisciplinary cooperation within the second intake of IEE's PhD-school from the viewpoint of the PhD-students. Under the above main heading of the school, students of this second cohort were working on the "Micro-Foundation of...