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| Hughes, Neal; Hafi, Ahmed; Goesch, Tim; Brownlowe, Nathan. |
| Australian urban water utilities face a significant challenge in designing appropriate demand management and supply augmentation policies in the presence of increasing water scarcity and uncertainty over future dam inflows. This paper considers the design of optimal demand management and supply augmentation policies for urban water. In particular, scarcity pricing is considered as a potential alternative to the predominant demand management policy of water restrictions. A stochastic dynamic programming model of an urban water market is developed based on data from the Australian Capital Territory. The model involves an explicit consideration of uncertainty via a probability distribution over dam inflows. Given a specification of the demand and supply for... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Public Economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6005 |
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| Deller, Steven C.; Hinds, David G.; Hinman, Donald L.. |
| Both rural and urban municipal officials, faced with increased local resistance to higher taxes, increasing expenditure needs, weakening financial support from higher levels of government, and the growing pressure to "do more with less" have accelerated their search for alternative ways of delivering local public services. The downsizing of government has been brought to the forefront of public discussion in part due to the general conservative shift at the federal and state level and the need to maintain a balanced budget at the local level. Related private sector trends downsizing middle management as a means to become "leaner and meaner," reducing duplication and waste, and increasing earnings, profit levels, and returns to nvestors. At the same time... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12658 |
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| Walden, Michael L.; Sisak, Mark R.. |
| The relationship between student achievement and school inputs has long been a subject of academic research. The general conclusion of past research is that school inputs, such as the number of teachers relative to pupils, has little impact on student academic outcomes. This paper provides a fresh look at this issue. Seventeen alternative measures of student performance in North Carolina school districts are related to a wide array of school policy inputs and socioeconomic characteristics of students and their families. Both static and dynamic analyses are performed. The key findings are (1) the school policy inputs significantly related to student achievement vary by the measure of student achievement used, (2) the joint contribution of school policy... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Public education; Student achievement; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15155 |
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| Johnson, Joseph S.. |
| Over the past two decades public investment analysis has increased considerably, both in theory and practice. This can be observed from the vast amount of literature which is now available in this field compared to the interwar period, and the use being made of benefit cost analysis and other related investment analysis in decision making for the allocation of public resources. Public investment analysis in the form of benefit cost analysis was first explored by a Frenchman, Jules Dupuit, towards the middle of the 19th century. The first systematic attempt to apply benefit cost analysis to public economic decisions seemed to have occurred in the United States, however. This occurred in the field of water resource development. |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: International Development; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 1971 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11063 |
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| James, Jennifer S.. |
| Most policy analyses are conducted using a model of a single market for a homogenous commodity. Usually, the commodity of interest is not truley homogenous, but is treated as such for the sake of simplicity. In doing so, analysts are implicitly assuming that a single-market model of a homogeneous product closely approximates true policy effects. This paper explores the implications of this assumption. The effects of the homogeneity assumption are shown for the simple case of a product available in two qualities, when market-distorting policies are introduced. It is shown that, for plausible parameter values, ignoring quality responses can have substantial impacts on the estimated welafare effects of stereotypical commodity price support policies. In... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123668 |
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| Parker, David; Kirkpatrick, Colin. |
| Effective and efficient regulation by government is important for economic development. Effective and efficient regulation promotes economic development, while vexatious regulation can cripple it. Many of the problems of developing countries are blamed on ineffective and inefficient government regulation. At the same time, however, understanding of the appropriate institutions and processes of the regulatory state in the context of developing countries remains underdeveloped. Studies to date tend to be of a case study nature and generalising the findings is restricted by the lack of a coherent theoretical framework. This paper attempts to develop a methodology for researching regulation in developing countries, drawing from the economics of regulation... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/30665 |
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| Deller, Steven C.; Maher, Craig; Lledo, Victor. |
| This study focuses on the impacts state shared revenues has on local government finances. Specifically we examine what is referred to in the academic literature as the "flypaper effect." Using a simple model of local fiscal behavior Bradford and Oates (1971a, 1971b) predict that aids to local governments is the equivalent to cash transfers to local constituents. Thus aids to local governments should have the same impact on local government spending as does increases in local personal income. Empirical studies, however, have found that aids to local governments has a much greater simulative affect on local spending than does a comparable increase in the income of local constituents. Private income is disproportionately spend on private consumption while... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12599 |
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| Edelman, Mark A.. |
| This staff paper reviews the Senate (SSB2072) and House (HSB688) versions of a proposed 1998 Amendment to the Iowa Constitution and provides a preliminary analysis of the fiscal impacts on the state general fund receipts, general fund appropriations, and local property taxes assuming each proposal was implemented in FY 1984. While the year-to-year reductions in spending are relatively small, the cumulative fiscal impact of the SSB2072 would likely have resulted in (1) a FY1997 state general fund limit that allows 32 percent less spending than actual FY1997, (2) a $710 million reduction in the growth of state aid to local government, and (3) a 29.7 percent increase in property taxes, if property taxes were used to fully replace the reduction in growth of... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: State tax limitations; Tax limitations; Revenue limitations; Spending limitations.; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18279 |
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| Adelaja, Adesoji O.; Gibson, Melissa. |
| Local schools are primarily funded through local property tax revenues, which are tied to property values and the distribution of value ranges within a community. Values, in turn, depend on the mix of lot sizes and building attributes (improvement characteristics), which are affected by zoning. Since lot size restrictions limit the size characteristics of homes (bedrooms, garages, building square footage, etc), it should constrain the number of school age kids emanating from a given homestead and that a school district services. Each home, depending on lot size, should exhibit differential impacts on school district revenues. Similarly, if lot size and the magnitude of other housing characteristics impact on the number of kids emanating from a home,... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Optimal lot size; Zoning; School finances; District revenues and costs; Land Economics/Use; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6412 |
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