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Outsourcing and public expenditure: an aggregate perspective with regional data

Delgado Téllez de Cepeda, Mar; Moral Benito, Enrique; …

Outsourcing can be defi ned as the delivery of public services by the private sector. The sign of the effect of outsourcing on public spending is ambiguous ex-ante. While outsourcing may reduce public spending through higher competition in the private sector, it may also increase public spending...

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Features. Outsourcing and public expenditure: an aggregate perspective with regional data

Delgado-Téllez, Mar; Moral-Benito, Enrique; Pérez, …

Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 1939

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Balance of power, certainty and discretion in the franchise relationship: An analysis of contractual terms

Spencer, Elizabeth C. - 2008

Australia is an express factor in determining unconscionability in contract formation and performance. Certainty is essential to … to in making the contract. Discretion, if it is too wide, may no longer represent the true intentions of the parties, but … franchise contract synergistically reinforce these conditions. This paper tests that theory by evaluating balance of power and …

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A Conditional Intent to Perform

Klass, Gregory - 2009

The doctrine of promissory fraud holds that a contractual promise implicitly represents an intent to perform. A promisor’s conditional intent to perform poses a problem for that doctrine. It is clear that some undisclosed conditions on the promisor’s intent should result in liability for...

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Interlocal Contractual Arrangements in the Provision of Public Safety

Andrew, Simon A. - 2005

state statutes that allowed mix approaches to contractual arrangements. A relational contract is advantageous because it … regional politics and avoid future disputes, municipality and county governments can choose a more legally binding contract by … using non-relational contract such as interlocal agreements, contracts or leases. Utilizing the data compiled by the Florida …

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Group Size and Incentive to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia

Zhang, Michael; Zhu, Feng - HKUST Business School; Harvard University - 2007

The literature of private provision of public goods suggests thatincentive to contribute is inversely related to group size. This paperempirically tests this relationship using field data from ChineseWikipedia, an online encyclopedia. We exploit an exogenous reduction ingroup size as a result of...

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The Virtual Commons: Why Free-Riding Can Be Tolerated in File Sharing Networks

Krishnan, Ramayya; Smith, Michael D.; Tang, Zhulei; … - 2008

Peer-to-peer networks have emerged as a popular alternative to traditional client-server architectures for the distribution of information goods. Recent academic studies have observed high levels of free-riding in various peer-to-peer networks, leading some to predict the imminent collapse of...

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Generating Revenues from WTP for Ecosystem Restoration: An Auction Experiment on Public Goods

Smith, Elizabeth C.; Swallow, Stephen K. - 2010

Research on public good auctions is intended to initiate development on new approaches to finance public goods, beyond government and philanthropic efforts. The researchers evaluate the potential to identify economic value for a subset of ecosystem servicesand markets that have the potential to...

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Small business taxation:an evaluation of the role of special treatment policies

Pope, Jeffrey - 2008

In many countries small businesses expect and generally receive special treatment, concessions or arrangements regarding taxation compared with medium and large business. Such policies are based primarily upon the role and importance of small business in economic growth and especially job...

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Policy implications of budget deficit targets

Haque, M. Badrul - 1991

I analyze in this paper a financial program found commonly in developing countries that are engaged in improving structural imbalances. Similar programs have also been adopted in industrialized countries, in the U.K. since 1980 and in the U.S. since 1984. A typical financial program consists of...

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