This work consists of two parts. In the first part I analyze the influence of personal mobility on the citizens' willingness to run for a political office in their municipality and on the resulting local policy outcome. The model portrays heterogeneous policy preferences that are coupled with...

We model organization as the command-and-communication network of managers erected on top of technology (which is modeled as a collection of plants). In our framework, the role of a manager is to deal with shocks that affect the plants that he oversees directly or indirectly. Organizational form...

Junge Technologieunternehmen kooperieren mit Wettbewerbern, um Zugang zu Informationen, Ressourcen, Märkten und Technologien (Gulati et al., 2000) zu erlangen und komplementäre Ressourcen zu internalisieren (Hamel, 1991). Sie nutzen die spezifischen Synergien ähnlicher Wissensbasen und...

This dissertation examines the role of bank structure on the effectiveness of monetary policy. Using time series data for U.S. banks, I examine the varying effect of monetary policy on bank lending for the period 1976-2003. It is found that as the banking industry gets more concentrated (through...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the fiscal characteristics of the new members in the light of the requirements of the SGP and the criticisms levelled against the Pact and to see in what ways their initial conditions differ from those faced by the current euro zone countries in the run-up...

Fiscal institutions, along with fiscal rules and budgetary procedures, are elements of the institutional environment of fiscal policy. Well pursued fiscal policy is reflected in the fiscal situation of a given country. The activities of many EU member countries and of Poland, done up till now,...

El nivel de inversión pública de las economías avanzadas se encuentra en mínimos históricos y muestra una tendencia decreciente al menos desde la década de los ochenta. Hay dos hipótesis principales en la literatura que tratan de explicar este hecho. La hipótesis de la «prevalencia del...

This survey first discusses general characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of different types of fiscal rules. The criterion for classifying them is based on the emphasis given: longterm sustainability (reducing the deficit bias and controlling the growth in public debt) or reducing the...

La fuerte posición macroeconómica permitió que las economías de América Latina mitigaran el impacto negativo de la crisis financiera usando una política fiscal expansiva, revirtiendo el comportamiento procíclico característico de la región. Al mismo tiempo, en las dos últimas décadas...