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Factor mobility and fiscal policy in the EU: policy issues and analytical approaches
Wildasin, David E. - 1999
This paper outlines some of the implications of factor market integration for fiscal policy in the countries of the EU … and for the EU itself. It draws particular attention to the dynamic dimensions of factor market integration, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428259
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The political economy of EU enlargement and the Treaty of Nice
Heinemann, Friedrich - 2000
The paper applies standard public choice reasoning to the negotiations on EU enlargement and the Treaty of Nice. The … present EU countries are respected. Decisive actors in the West are the members of the European Parliament, individuals in … post-entry position of new members. The Intergovernmental Conference is reinterpreted as an opportunity of EU-15 actors to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428342
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Democratisation versus accountability - should the European Parliament be given more powers?
Schwager, Robert - 1999
This paper challenges the assertion that European politics would be closer to the citizens' preferences if decision power were transferred from the Council of Ministers to the European Parliament. On the one hand, citizens benefit from a greater transparency in the Parliamentś debates compared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428269
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The EU decision-making procedures : some insight from non cooperative game theory
Laruelle, Annick - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000975181
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Citation frequency and the value of patented innovation
Harhoff, Dietmar; Narin, Francis; Scherer, Frederic M.; … - 1997
Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents yielded a count of citations to those patents....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417779
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Project monitoring and banking competition under adverse selection
Kanniainen, Vesa; Stenbacka, Rune - 1998 - Revised version
We develop an analysis of ex ante monitoring of risky projects in banking. If protected from competition, banks are more concerned about not catching good risk projects when the perceived state of the economy improves, while they are more concerned about being induced to finance bad risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417798
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Exploring the tail of patented invention value distributions
Harhoff, Dietmar; Scherer, Frederic M.; Vopel, Katrin - 1997
Patent renewal studies reveal a highly rightward-skewed distribution of patent values. Our approach elicits valuations approximating those of the patented invention. This paper focuses on the full-term patents of the application year 1977 held by West German and U.S. residents. The tail of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417839
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Does evaluation distort teacher effort and decisions? : quasi-experimental evidence from a policy of retesting students
Aucejo, Esteban; Romano, Teresa Foy; Taylor, Eric S. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995402
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Soziale Dienstleistungsarbeit und Corona-Pandemie: Rückkehr in eine aufgewertete Normalität
Institut Arbeit und Technik - 2020
In der Corona-Pandemie erfahren soziale Dienstleistungsberufe als "systemrelevante Berufe" eine hohe Aufmerksamkeit und öffentliche Wertschätzung. Vielfach wurde in der Vergangenheit darauf hingewiesen, dass soziale Arbeit in Deutschland strukturell unterbewertet ist. Auch wenn die akute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012204302
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Communicating subjective evaluations
Lang, Matthias - 2018
? Suppose a manager's evaluation is private information. Justifying her evaluation is costly but limits the principal's scope … for distorting her evaluation of the employee. I show that the manager justifies her evaluation if and only if the … employee's performance was poor. The justification assures the employee that the manager has not distorted the evaluation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930440