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Unemployment and Clientelism: The Piqueteros of Argentina
Ponce, Aldo Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper sheds light on possible explanations for the success and sustainability of the piqueteros social movement in Argentina, developed from a comparative perspective based on Latin America. I show which institutional arrangements, political actors, and configurations of power contributed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837272
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Who Contributes? A Strategic Approach to a European Immigration Policy
Russo, Giuseppe; Senatore, Luigi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
According to the Lisbon Treaty the increasing cost of enforcing the European border against immigration shall be shared among the EU members. Nonetheless, the Treaty is rather vague with respect to the "appropriate measures" to adopt in order to distribute the financial burden. Members who do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294959
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Fiscal decentralization, ideology, and the size of the public sector
Baskaran, T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
No consensus has yet emerged on whether fiscal decentralization facilitates or impedes the growth of the public sector. One explanation for this ambiguity in the literature is that the effect of fiscal decentralization on public sector size depends on the government’s ideology. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004206
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A Note on Contribution Games with Loss Functions
Russo, Giuseppe; Senatore, Luigi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Decisions on joint funding of continuous public goods between two agents often involve heterogeneous targets. We introduce loss functions in a contribution game in order to study the effect of this conflict. Unlike Varian (1994), joint contribution occurs only if the players’ targets are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294947
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The Effect of Spillovers on the Provision of Local Public Goods
Bloch, Francis; Zenginobuz, Unal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper analyzes the provision of local public goods with positive spillovers across jurisdictions. If spillovers are symmetric, the noncooperative game played by jurisdictions admits a unique equilibrium, and an increase in spillovers reduces the total provision of public goods. Smaller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787054
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Comparative urban institutions and intertemporal externality: a revisit of the Coase conjecture
Deng, Feng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Coase originally formulated his conjecture about intertemporal price competition in the context of a land market, but it has been applied almost exclusively to non-spatial markets. This paper revisits the Coase Conjecture in the context of land development and urban institutions. I compare four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616918
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EMERGENCE, ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS, AND DECLINE OF THE PIQUETERO MOVEMENT: A COMPARATIVE INSTITUTIONAL EXPLANATION
PONCE, ALDO - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper offers an institutional explanation for the growth, organizational transformations, and decline of the piquetero social movement in Argentina, developed from a comparative perspective based on Latin America. I analyze which institutional arrangements, political actors, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621782
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The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) as an Evolutionary Learning Process
Ania, Ana B.; Wagener, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The best-practise feature and the iterative design of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469941
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The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) as an Evolutionary Learning Process
Ania, Ana B.; Wagener, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The best-practise feature and the iterative design of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187337
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Institutional Arrangements for Coordination Among Governments in Germany
Spahn, Paul Bernd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
The theory of fiscal federalism makes a strong case for decentralizing government functions in order to enhance the … of politicians, and by mobilizing citizens through greater participation at the local level. Federalism respects … different cultural and individual traditions among regions, and it emphasizes local diversity. Federalism thus reflects the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835433