Unraveling Public Good Games: The Role of Priors

This paper provides experimental evidence on how players predict end game effects in a linear public good game. Our regression analysis yields a measure of the relative importance of priors and signals on subjects\' beliefs on contributions and allow us to conclude that, firstly, the weight of the signal is relatively unimportant, while priors have a large weight and, secondly, priors are the same for all periods. Hence, subjects do not expect end game effects and there is very little updating of beliefs.

Experiences of Public-Private Collaboration for Stimulating

For over a decade now, work has been ongoing on the professional organization and management of town centre retail spaces in Spain under what is known as the Open Shopping Centre model. Introducing this model has involved a process of public-private collaboration in several different phases, conditioned to a large extent by the specific context of each initiative. With a view to furthering the process of benchmarking developed out of the experiences of recent years, we shall use case analysis to explain trends in initiatives for retail regeneration and stimulation undertaken in the Basque Country (an autonomous community in the north of Spain) since 2000. We analyze the factors that have prompted these initiatives, assessing and comparing the landmarks and conditions that have marked, or are determining, progress in the dynamic of collaboration between municipal authorities and retailers for a competitive improvement both in the retail sector and in the environment in which it operates: the city. Finally we list witch are these key factors.

The impacts of leadership in the quality of municipal public services: case study of a portuguese municipal council

[EN]The present research work, based on some of the components of the Common Assessment Framework, sets to analyse the influence held by leadership in specific factors that constitute the organisational climate, and also the impact that these factors have on the quality of municipal public services. For the purposes of this study, we propose Likert’s exploitative autocratic and participative leadership styles to explain the genesis, structure and workflow. As far as the organisational climate is concerned, the variables used are motivation, satisfaction, empowerment, conflict and stress. The main conclusions that arose was that a participative leader confers higher relevance to the quality of service, through motivation, satisfaction, empowerment and human resources positive results, than an exploitative autocratic leader. Performed contributions are based on the empiric research hereby presented, and new research guidelines are proposed. The research methodology used was qualitative, based on the case study.

Implementation of a nursing competency assessment system in public hospitals

Numerous problems are frequently observed when nursing competency assessment systems (NCAS) are implemented. How to effectively implement a nursing competency assessment system, according to academic and practical contributions, is poorly reported in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to present a set of recommendations for public hospitals and nursing management in order to facilitate the implementation of a NCAS. To achieve this objective we have revised the existing literature and conducted a Delphi study with nursing managers and human resource managers of the public hospitals of the Basque Health Service. The results are that the implementation of a NCAS requires a well-planned strategy that managers must consider before implementing any NCAS. This strategy must include, at minimum, the following aspects: communication, training, leadership, and content where the NCAS is concerned. The context of the organisations and the cultural dimensions may also influence the results of the application of the system.

The Private Provision of International Impure Public Goods: the Case of Climate Policy

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Understanding Public Support for Externality-Correcting Taxes and Subsidies: A Lab Experiment

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Krisia eta politikak. Irrati-telebista publikoa ikusmiran : Ikus-entzunezko Komunikazio eta Publizitate Saileko II Nazioarteko Kongresua : aktak : (UPV/EHU) Bilbao 2012ko urriaren 4 eta 5

1. Ponentziak: - Public Service Broadcasting in Europe: a comparative analysis. - Lengua, poder y espacio de comunicación. Cataluña y el papel de la CCMA en la normalización del catalán. - Medios públicos, democracia y el rol de la Universidad Pública. - Servicio público radiotelevisivo, independencia de gestión e informativa. - Retos para un espacio vasco de comunicación. El papel de EITB en el sistema comunicativo Vasco. 2. Komunikazioak : I. Irrati-telebista zerbitzu publikoaren finantzaketa - I. La financiación del servicio público de radiotelevisión: - El efecto dominó. Nuevas estrategias de financiación del documental creativo ante la crisis de la televisión pública en Europa. - El Comercio ubicuo como medio de financiación de las televisiones públicas. - Euskal zinemaren ekoizpena eta finantzazioa: EiTBren funtzioa. - The Financing of Public Television in Spain, the chronicles of an announced death. Country case analysis and proposals for funding the wreck. - Europako hizkuntza gutxituetako irrati-telebista publikoak: eragin ekonomikoa eta finantzaketa arazoak. II. Hedabide publikoak teknologia berrien erronkaren aurrean : - Los servicios públicos europeos de radio y televisión ante la convergencia mediática. - Análisis de contenido longitudinal de rtve.es y canalsur.es. La selección y jerarquización de la noticias principales de portada. - RTVE a la carta en tiempos de crisis. Digitalización en el contexto de la crisis económica. De los canales temáticos a la televisión a la carta. - La social TV revoluciona el panorama de la televisión convencional. Análisis del fenómeno de los twittersodios en RTVE. - Televisiones autonómicas y redes sociales. - Análisis de los contenidos audiovisuales en los agregadores de notas de prensa. - Impacto de Internet en la TV generalista: Innovación en los contenidos y nuevas fórmulas de negocio. III. Informazio-saioak hedabide publikoetan : - La calidad y el rigor en los informativos de TVE. - Percepción de la independencia informativa en la radiotelevisión pública a través de los debates de la comisión de control parlamentario del congreso de los diputados, tras la aprobación de la ley 17/2006. -¿Propaganda o información? El tratamiento discursivo de la actualidad valenciana en los informativos de Canal 9. - Medios públicos y comunicadores de confianza. La sintonía con el público como rutina profesional. - La percepción de los jóvenes andaluces del modelo de servicio público de la RTVA. - La construcción mediática de los candidatos. Los informativos de las televisiones públicas en campaña electoral. - Análisis de la gestión y regulación de RTVE (periodo 2004-2011) y su influencia en la información periodística. IV. Irrati publikoaren erronkak - La radio local: una especie en peligro de extinción. El caso de Girona. - Hego Euskal Herriko Udal Irratiak, eredu baten porrota. - La extinción de la proximidad en la radio pública estatal. - Desafíos de la radiodifusión pública y local en Andalucía. V. Hedabide publikoetako profesionalak: - El Estatuto de Redacción en EITB: Un sueño a punto de convertirse en realidad. - La reivindicación de los profesionales ante el nuevo escenario de la televisión pública en España. - La educación en Competencia Mediática de los espectadores y de los profesionales de la televisión pública. - Libros de estilo y directrices editoriales: referente de calidad en el Periodismo audiovisual y multimedia de los medios públicos. VI. Telebista publikoen gobernantza: telebista autonomikoen kasua: - Hacia un nuevo modelo en tiempos de crisis económica: el caso de la televisión autonómica valenciana. - Retos y perspectivas para la televisión pública andaluza. - El reflejo de Caín. Política y televisión pública en el Principado de Asturias (2005-2012). - Empresa de comunicación y entorno político. El porqué, en su momento, del servicio público audiovisual en Asturias. - Canal Sur Televisión en tiempos de crisis. ¿El fin de un modelo público de televisión en Andalucía? VII. Irrati-telebista publikoaren erregulazioa: - La corregulación como aplicación y complemento del marco legal. La necesidad de repensar el gobierno del sector audiovisual. - Los consejos audiovisuales españoles en el marco de las autoridades de regulación europeas del audiovisual. - Valores de servicio

Solutions for New Terrestrial Broadcasting Systems Offering Simultaneously Stationary and Mobile Services

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Analysis and evaluation of public health policy in Cuba : progress on millennium development goals

[EN] The main objective of this project is to analyze Cuban public health policy and the Millennium Development Goals, especially those linked to the issue of health, presenting their potential and strengths with a well-defined time horizon (2000-2015). The Millennium Development Goals are the international consensus on development and was signed as an international minimum agreement, with which began the century. The MDGs promote various goals and targets, with the corresponding monitoring indicators, which should be achieved by all countries for the present year. Health is an area that is at the center of the Millennium Development Goals, which reinforce each other to get a true human development itself. The research was done through theoretical frameworks of social production of health and disease, social justice and the power structure. A retrospective analysis of Cuban economic and social context is performed in order to study whether health-related MDGs are likely to be completed by the deadline on the island and likewise, the main parameters related to health compared with those of the neighboring countries in the Americas.