The First German Municipal Exposition. (Dresden, 1903)

First Amendment Retaliation Suits: Municipal Accountability

an exposition of schmidt-petri’s critique on gettier’s first counterexample

by introducing two counterexamples, gettier claims that it is possible that a person s has true justified belief that p but fails to know that proposition. the proposition p in gettier’s first counterexample includes a “definite description”. we try, in this article, to refute gettier’s first counterexample by means of what russell, strawson and donnellan have said on the analysis of the propos...

Technische Universität Dresden

This paper provides a simple model of corruption dynamics with the ratchet effect. Corrupt officials have ex post the incentive to price discriminate entrepreneurs based on the entry decisions made in an earlier period. The inability of government officials to commit to future money demands induces entrepreneurs to delay entry in order to receive a discount in the permit price later. Even thoug...

Technische Universität Dresden

Globalisation (in the sense of increased international trade) is usually associated with gains from trade but also distributional effects where e.g. capital owners gain and workers lose, both in real terms. In recent years, globalisation seems to be synonymous to international mergers of firms. This paper shows in a model with Cournot competition that international mergers due to globalisation ...

The first municipal solid waste incinerator project in Southeast Europe

Purpose The City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, is in the project preparation phase for a publicprivate partnership (PPP) project for the provision of services of treatment and disposal of residual municipal solid waste (MSW), including the construction and operation of a waste to energy (WtE) facility. The objective of this work was to perform a social cost-benefit analysis (CBA) for a co...