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Economics of Public WiFi [PDF]
Local governments in urban regions continue to find the idea of public or municipal WiFi attractive. This is for multiple reasons, not all of which are based on economic logic (such as city branding, vote-buying, emergency services, commercial lobbying, peak-traffic broadband off-loading).
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Economics and Public Health [PDF]
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Public Finances and Economic Transition [PDF]
This paper analyzes developments in general government expenditures and revenues for 26 reforming ex-socialist economies (RESEs) over the period 1989-1994. The data indicate that, rather than uniformly converging to a “Western European” norm, RESEs have followed a variety of patterns, depending on how successful they have been in economic reform in ...
Barbone, Luca, Polackova, Hana
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Changes in the Academic Labor Market for Economists [PDF]
[Excerpt] American colleges and universities are increasingly substituting non-tenure track full-time and part-time faculty for full-time tenured and tenure track faculty.
Ehrenberg, Ronald G
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Studying how firms and individuals respond to tax policy changes is key to assess their trade-off between equity and efficiency. Among individuals, taxpayers at the top of the income distribution have received special attention in the Public Economics literature.
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A review of public transport economics
Public transport provision requires substantial organisational efforts, careful planning, in some cases contributions from the public purse, and coordination between millions of passengers and staff members in large systems. Efficient resource allocation is critical in its daily operation, and therefore public transport has been among the most popular ...
Daniel Hörcher+2 more
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The Public Economics of Climate Change [PDF]
This paper considers the challenges to the field of public economics that arise from the issue of global warming. It outlines the argument for viewing the global climate as a public good and describes the problems that emerge when one tries to apply the insights of public goods theory to global public goods such as global warming.
Agnar Sandmo, Agnar Sandmo
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The paper is a contribution to a series of recollections and reflections on the professional experiences of distinguished economists which the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review started in 1979. In it Herbert Giersch explains that economics is a pubic good with a potential demand far from saturation.
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The public economics of increasing longevity [PDF]
One of the greatest success stories in our societies is that people are living longer, life expectancy at birth being now above 80 years. Whereas the lengthening of life opens huge opportunities for individuals if extra years are spent in prosperity and good health, it is however often regarded as a source of problems for policy-makers.
Pestieau, Pierre, Ponthière, Grégory
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On the public economics of annuities with differential mortality [PDF]
Economics Working Paper Series, 10 ...
Bommier, Antoine+2 more
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