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Local economic resilience and economic specialization in Greece during the crisis
Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract This paper scrutinizes the issue of economic resilience, aiming to detect the existence of a systematic link with economic specialization. To this end, the paper conducts an empirical analysis at the local (i.e., municipal) level of Greece during the economic crisis period (2009–2015), providing cartographic visualizations and spatial ...
Panagiotis Artelaris +2 more
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Land Use Policy and Racial Segregation
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Land use policies, though seemingly race‐neutral, can inadvertently contribute to racial segregation. Our study focuses on examining the impact of minimum lot size regulations on the likelihood of ethnic minorities integrating into a community, which reveals compelling evidence suggesting that black households exhibit a preference for smaller ...
Ling Huang
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Policy Capacity Under Decentralization: Kindergarten Education Reforms in the Philippines
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines the relationship between policy capacity and policy effectiveness in decentralized governance setups. It challenges the conventional view that policy functions should only be decentralized when requisite capacities already exist at lower levels of government. Instead, the paper proposes that capacity can follow function ‐ as
Kidjie Ian Saguin, M. Ramesh
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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
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The Political Legitimacy of Multilevel Crisis Governance: The EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract European‐wide crises have required extraordinary responses from the EU and its member states that affected its governance and legal framework as well as its legitimacy. The recent COVID‐19 pandemic spread across borders and involved multiple levels of government to mitigate its socio‐economic impact and facilitate a swift recovery.
Marius Guderjan, Mario Kölling
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Do Criminalization Policies Impact Local Homelessness?
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Local criminalization policies draw on the logic of deterrence to levy costs on individuals who engage in behaviors that are closely associated with various public concerns, such as those criminalizing behaviors associated with homelessness, thereby potentially reducing community‐level costs.
Hannah Lebovits, Andrew Sullivan
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The Causal Relationship Between Jurisdiction Size and Institutional Quality
Journal of Regional Science, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 685-702, March 2026.ABSTRACT While the relationship between jurisdiction size and economic and electoral outcomes has been extensively studied, its causal impact on institutional capacity and quality remains unexplored. Leveraging the mergers of 197 Italian municipalities, we investigate changes in administrative quality using the Municipal Administration Quality Index ...
Augusto Cerqua +2 more
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How Can Digital Platforms Resolve Market Failures to Foster a Circular Economy?
Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 737-758, January 2026.ABSTRACT Market failures—such as asymmetric information, incomplete markets, externalities, and market power—present major barriers to a circular economy (CE) transition. Although government intervention is traditionally proposed, this paper examines the potential of digital platforms, particularly software‐as‐a‐service (SaaS) business‐to‐business (B2B)
Ässia Boukhatmi, Wim Van Opstal
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How budget trade‐offs undermine electoral incentives to build public housing
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 1, Page 202-220, January 2026.Abstract Housing shortages and rising rents have increased demands for affordable housing. In this paper, we examine whether electoral constraints can undermine local politicians' incentives to build public housing. Empirically, we draw on the full‐count census of all housing built in Germany, data on 19,685 local elections between 1989 and 2011, and ...
Hanno Hilbig, Andreas Wiedemann
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Public Administration Review, Volume 86, Issue 1, Page 184-198, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT In 2009, the US federal government created the Build America Bond (BAB) program to improve access to the capital markets for state and local governments. While the federal government typically subsidizes subnational capital financing indirectly through tax exemption, the BAB program provided direct cash subsidies to governments.
Martin J. Luby +2 more
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