Die Stadtstaatenwertung—ein Hindernis für Länderfusionen?

Die Bestrebungen für eine Fusion von Berlin und Brandenburg haben gezeigt, dass L?nderfusionen politisch nur umsetzbar sind, wenn Klarheit über die Finanzperspektiven der beteiligten L?nder besteht. Dabei kommt den rechtlichen Folgen eines Zusammenschlusses für die so genannte Stadtstaatenwertung im L?nderfinanzausgleich zentrale Bedeutung zu. Bislang wurde stets davon ausgegangen, dass L?nderfusionen den Wegfall der Stadtstaatenwertung und damit Kompensationsregelungen erfordern. Verlangt das geltende Recht auf der Grundlage der Finanzverfassung tats?chlich den Wegfall der Stadtstaatenwertung? Der Aufsatz gibt die pers?nliche Meinung der Verfasser wieder.     

Publikationen deutschsprachiger Forscher in Top-Journals (2. Quartal 2005)

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Shadow vs. market prices in explaining land allocation: Subsistence maize cultivation in rural Mexico

Prices may fail to explain farmers’ land allocation if the relevant decision prices are “shadow prices” that deviate from market prices. This may be the case for farmers who attach significant non-market values to their crops. I theoretically explain why land allocation may not respond to market signals even if transaction costs are not binding. I use nationally representative rural household data from Mexico to show that shadow prices better explain the land subsistence farmers allocate to traditional maize in this center of maize diversity. I discuss the importance of non-market values in understanding supply response and on-farm conservation of traditional crops.     

Allocative vs. technical spectrum efficiency

Achieving allocative and technically efficient spectrum management is a key aspect of deregulatory reforms in several OECD countries. However, reform legislation offers few clues as to how these objectives should rank when they conflict with one another. An ‘innocent’ prior acquisition of service-neutral spectrum at an efficiently run auction may prove allocative efficient but fail to be technically efficient if the spectrum is left fallow in the short term. Accountability for the productive usage of a public resource and pressures from short-term political cycles may induce regulators to mandate some minimal level of activity. Two plausible regulatory responses are considered: use it or lose it clauses and spectrum trading incentives. The former favours technical efficiency whilst the latter promotes allocative efficiency. The argument is formalised in a simple economic model buttressing the roles of uncertainty and transaction costs to assert the primacy of allocative efficiency over technical efficiency.     

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ECONOMIC GROWTH, INCOME AND HAPPINESS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

The pursuit of high economic growth is considered desirable as it generates an increase in a nation's wealth, income, employment and output. The rising income should enable consumers to purchase more goods and services, which in turn should result in enhanced utility and subjective happiness. Empirical studies suggest that higher income resulting from high rates of economic growth contribute to poverty alleviation and life satisfaction in low income countries. Higher income raises the happiness of the poor. In developed countries, higher income does not seem to "buy" higher happiness, once a threshold level of income is reached. This exploratory study seeks to examine the quantitative and qualitative sources of happiness. A higher absolute level of income is found to be significantly related to subjective happiness. Among the non-income factors, family togetherness, a good working environment and a higher level of education can contribute to making people happier. Happiness thus involves more than just economic growth and income.