infonet-economy

The author reports on a series of experiments designed to investigate the factor of incentive mechanisms in the case of private provisions of public goods. In the Control treatment, there was no mechanism so that subjects faced strong free-riding incentives. In the so-called Falkinger mechanism treatment, the author implemented the Falkinger mechanism. The studies explored the impact...

This article draws on a new data set that enables the authors to compare the distribution of income from employment across OECD countries. Specifically, the article conducts a pooled cross-sectional time-series analysis of the determinants of wage inequality in sixteen countries from 1973 to 1995. The analysis shows that varieties of capitalism matter. The authors find that the...

A hypertext view is a derived hypertext for a given database. We are interested in providing a mechanism of translating hypertext view update operations to appropriate data manipulation operations in database. However, given a hypertext view update operation, we cannot always uniquely determine what needs to be done in terms of database operations to perform the intended hypertext...

The Trigger and Data Acquisition System of the ALICE Experiment has been designed to support the high bandwidth expected during the LHC heavy ion run. A model of this system has been developed. The goal of this model is two fold.First, it allows us to verify that the system-level design is consistent and behaves according to the requirements. Second, it is used to evaluate the...

This paper reviews the recent theoretical and empirical literature that relates education to growth, and draws some lessons for the Swedish experience. First, the “human capital accumulation” approach is discussed: agents decide, at each moment of their lives, to forego time or resources to improve their future productivity. The quality of the educational system is argued to be a...