scholarly journals Mixed Duopoly, Privatization and the Shadow Cost of Public Funds

Author(s):  
Carlo Capuano ◽  
Giuseppe De Feo

2014 ◽  
pp. 140827142349001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshihiro Matsumura ◽  
Yoshihiro Tomaru


2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-425
Author(s):  
Qidi Zhang ◽  
Leonard F.S. Wang ◽  
Yapo Yang


Author(s):  
Jean-Christophe Poudou ◽  
Michel Roland ◽  
Lionel Thomas

A regulator imposes a universal service obligation (USO) on a vertically integrated firm that owns an essential network. The regulator has imperfect information about the network's fixed cost. Network access is provided to licensed competitors. The USO consists in a constraint on market coverage and is compensated through a mix of public funds and transfers from entrants. We first use a basic adverse selection model to show that, because of informational rents, a sufficiently high shadow cost of public funds can lead to a lower coverage with the USO than without it. We then show that this result tends to be robust in various realistic extensions of the basic model.



2019 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 100869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ding Chen ◽  
Leonard F.S. Wang ◽  
Jen-yao Lee


2019 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 101026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susumu Sato ◽  
Toshihiro Matsumura
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e-Finanse ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
Beata Zofia Filipiak ◽  
Marek Dylewski

AbstractThe purpose of the article is analysis of participatory budgets as a tool for shaping decisions of local communities on the use of public funds. The authors ask the question of whether the current practice of using the participatory budget is actually a growing trend in local government finances or, after the initial euphoria resulting from participation, society ceased to notice the real possibilities of influencing the directions of public expenditures as an opportunity to legislate public policies implemented. It is expected that the conducted research will allow us to evaluate the participatory budget and indicate whether this tool practically acts as a stimulus for changes in the scope of tasks under public policies. The authors analyzed and evaluated the announced competitions for projects as part of the procedure for elaborating participatory budgeting for selected LGUs. Then, they carried out an in-depth analysis of the data used to assess real social participation in the process of establishing social policies.







Author(s):  
Gianmarco Daniele ◽  
Gemma Dipoppa
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Author(s):  
Julie F. Mead

When the Court in Tinker v. Des Moines famously declared that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,” everyone understood that the gate was the entrance to a public school, funded by state tax dollars and operated by state officials. No one on the Court had yet contemplated what might happen to those students’ rights if the gate accessed a private school and public funds were used to buy that entry. Publicly funded subsidies for private education have evolved considerably since the Court heard Tinker and now parents in many states may use public funds to choose the school for their child via voucher programs, tax credit scholarship programs, and education savings accounts. But what impact does such a choice have on the rights students typically enjoy in schools? This chapter explores that question and explains that even though voucher and voucher-like programs like tax credit scholarship programs and education savings accounts are publicly funded, the rights afforded to children when they enroll in a private school through such a program do not mirror those enjoyed in public school settings. In fact, when parents exercise a voucher, they effectively trade constitutional protections for contractual obligations. That trade has significant impacts on the claims that may be brought should concern arise over issues related to students’ rights to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, or due process.



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