Now showing items 1-10 of 32
Federalism as a Public Good
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005-06)
This paper suggests that stabilizing federalism is like solving a public good provision problem. It reviews results in the public good provision literature that are relevant for federalism, and discusses the implications ...
Alternatives to NIMBY gridlock: voluntary approaches to radioactive waste facility siting in Canada and the United States
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1994-12)
Neither Canada nor the United States has sited a new radioactive waste management facility in more than two decades, despite the continuous generation of new waste and the paucity of reliable disposal capacity. Both nations ...
Firm Creation and Economic Transitions
(1998-07-01)
Virtually all industrial countries are experiencing some form of transformation in their economies, from the dramatic move from centrally planned to market economies in East-central Europe, to the rebuilding of the economies ...
Type interaction models and the rule of six
(Springer-Verlag; Springer, 2005-11-11)
In this paper, I describe and analyze a class of type interaction models. In these models, an infinite population of agents with discrete types interact in groups of fixed size and possibly change their types as a function ...
Which Public Goods are Endangered?: How Evolving Communication Technologies Affect The Logic of Collective Action
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-12)
The theory in Mancur Olson's The Logicof Collective Action is built fromhistorically uncontroversial assumptionsabout interpersonal communication. Today,evolving technologies are changingcommunication dynamics in ways ...
Economic Transition and Elections in Poland
(2001-06-01)
Poland's economic and political transition, one of the most successful transitions, has depended very heavily on the job creation in new firms to replace the jobs lost in the formerly state-owned enterprises. This uses ...
A diagrammatic exposition of the logic of collection action
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Center for Study of Public Choice Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1976-06)
Strategic Interaction and Trade Policymaking: Formal Analysis and Simulation
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006-04)