infonet-economy

This paper proposes the following incentive scheme for the private provision of public goods: government should reward and penalize deviations from the mean contribution by an appropriate factor. This makes efficient contribution individually rational even if individuals see through the government budget constraint.

Development of the Decision Support System (DSS) used by the National Emergency Operations Centre in Switzerland began immediately after the accident at Chernobyl. The system will evaluate acceptable countermeasures following the accidental release of radioactivity in order to reduce ingestion dose. The DSS - not designed for the very early phase following the accidental release of...

Führt die Deregulierung automatisch zu Effizienz im öffentlichen
Sektor? Der Markt bezwingt Institutionen, die nicht effizient sind. Aber
der Markt weist nicht den Weg, auf dem Wirtschaftlichkeit erreicht werden kann. Hierzu sind Managementwissen und Druck seitens der Führungsinstanz erforderlich.

The growing demand for long-term care (LTC) causes the relationship between children and their parents to gain increased importance for society. Parents may create incentives for children to provide LTC through bequests, or they may purchase LTC insurance. While these instruments have been analyzed separately in the literature, this article shows that optimal LTC insurance must be...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for 1984-90, the author analyzes the entrance of young individuals into the German labor market, comparing the experience of apprenticeship graduates to that of graduates from universities, full-time vocational schools, and secondary schools. Apprentices experienced fewer unemployment spells in the transition to their first full-time...

Mobile code is more and more accepted as a promising alternative for structuring distributed applications. The messenger paradigm is the approach to mobile code used in this paper. Messengers are threads of control that can move in a network of messenger platforms to search for resources and information they need to accomplish their task. They are expressed in the MØ messenger...