s ociety’s demand for quality is influencing the environment in which people sho~, work, are entertained, and relax. Businesses are continually striving to upgrade their service and increase their return on investment. The transition between the transport system and most activities is a parking lot. It is therefore not surprising that the quality of parking lots is increasing in importance. The...

Individuals of different quality may have different investment strategies, shaping responses to experimental manipulations, thereby rendering the detection of such patterns difficult. However, previous clutch-size manipulation studies have infrequently incorporated individual differences in quality. To examine costs of incubation and reproductive investment in relation to changes in clutch size...

We analyze public investment in social infrastructure using a two-period model in which a government must intermediate all infrastructure investment. Voters choose a government from two alternative types, high quality and low quality. A high quality government obtains higher returns on infrastructure but also demands a bigger consumption payoff for intermediating investment, implying higher tax...