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Why do politicians employ public–private partnerships? Results from a mixed‐method study
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract Public–private partnerships (PPPs) have become increasingly common in government infrastructure programs around the world. This study collates and categorises the types of rationales that scholars have identified as the reasons for governments to use PPPs.
Sebastian Zwalf
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D’un monde à l’autre ou les rhétoriques de l’exemple dans les manuels de microéconomie
Revue de la Régulation, 2018 In France, for more than 15 years, many economics students have urged their professors to leave “imaginary worlds” behind. This paper takes this plea as an invitation to interrogate ourselves about the world(s) we tell our students about. In this context,
Sophie Jallais
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Access to telecommunications networks [PDF]
telecommunication;telecommunication industry;networks;access to market;policy;allocation ...
Bijl, P. de, Canoy, M., Kemp, R.
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Beyond Attendance: Key Determinants to Improve Students’ Course Performance at a Small Liberal Arts College [PDF]
, 2017 The improvement of college students’ course performance is an important topic for instructors. Many researchers have found an inverse relationship between number of absences and course performance, suggesting that attendance matters for students’ course ...
Kitaoka, Hisaya
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In the field:Coase an exemplar in the tradition of Smith, Marshall and Ostrom [PDF]
, 2014 This paper argues that Coase provides the primary 20th century exemplar of the grounding of analytical developments in economics in direct fieldwork observation.
Reid, Gavin C.
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Pacific Economic Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article proposes a 2‐period model featuring jointly habit formation, consumption externalities, and asymmetric information to investigate their impacts on optimal labour and saving taxes. Regarding the effect of habit formation only, our model suggests that both labour taxation in the first period and a capital subsidy between the first ...
Yunmin Chen, Dongmeng Ren
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Equilibria with rationing in an economy with increasing returns [PDF]
equilibrium theory ...
Weddepohl, H.N.
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Trust is both a prerequisite and a product of insurance, as insurance contracts are built on and create trust relations that enable a risk‐averse perspective towards the future. At the same time, insurer‐policyholder relationships are characterised by a persistent distrust, rooted in insurance economics and industry reputation. In this article,
Maiju Tanninen, Gert Meyers
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Essays in Microeconomic Theory
, 2016 The thesis first provides an axiomatic characterization of the probability-weighted minimal norm solution for Bayesian social choice problems with reference points. Chapter 2 provides a characterization of feasibility conditions for general social choice problems.
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