We investigate the effects of power derived from centrality and authority on contributions in repeated social dilemma settings. Groups of five players play VCMgames on a fixed network, where there is one central player ...

The Central puzzle we seek to address is “Why does what is arguably the most plausible account of the decision to vote or not to vote, namely the rational choice model proposed by Anthony Downs (1957), apparently go so ...

Se ha recorrido un largo camino en lo referente a la contabilidad de los gastos público. Estos avances no son, sin embargo, equiparables a los registrados en el ámbito de la evaluación, y singularmente en lo referido al ...

How does freedom of association shape social cohesion, individual behavior and welfare, in heterogeneous populations? To answer this question, we develop a theoretical model and conduct experiments with human subjects. ...

For some years now, the number of political parties asking for the direct participation of citizens in the decision making process is increasing. These parties defend that citizens should be able to decide on each and every ...

Public procurement essentially consists in the purchase of goods and/or services helping public administrations performing (better) their public services missions. Its role has evolved and it is increasingly used as an ...

This paper aims at contributing to the debate on whether unsolicited ratings are strategically motivated. I present evidence from the sovereign debt market that strategic motivation is not necessarily behind the patterns ...

This paper shows that a historical process that ended more than five centuries ago, the Reconquest, is very important to explain Spanish regional economic development down to the present day. An indicator measuring the ...