ESSAYS ON REGIONAL AMENITIES AND PUBLIC POLICIES By ELENA YEVGENYEVNA ANDREYEVA AUGUST, 2016 Committee Chair: Dr. Jorge Martinez-Vazquez Major Department: Economics This dissertation investigates how alterations in government policies affect the level of, and access to, public amenities, and how outcomes vary across space. The first essay sheds light on whether the recentralization of political...

this paper highlights the strategic role of regional and national policies for digital libraries and archives in promoting access to knowledge for development in africa.  it views regional/national information policies as general frameworks and contexts within which policies for digital libraries and archives are situated.  it, however, recognizes the need to highlight the latter as instrument ...

In order to analyze the privatization policies undertaken by national and regional governments, I consider a horizontal differentiation model with price competition in which country consists of two regions different sizes. show that public-sector intervention either or government is essential for achieving social optimum. The preferences consumers firms about policy are completely opposite: pre...