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Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India
Iyer, Lakshmi; Mani, Anandi - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 94 (2012) 3, pp. 723-739
We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns and the consequent implications for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique microlevel data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions. Politicians use frequent...
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
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Corruption Dynamics: The Golden Goose Effect
Niehaus, Paul; Sukhtankar, Sandip - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 5 (2013) 4, pp. 230-69
Theoretical work on disciplining corrupt agents has emphasized the role of expected future rents?for example, efficiency wages. Yet taken seriously this approach implies that illicit future rents should also deter corruption. We study this "golden goose" effect in the context of a statutory wage...
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Institutional and Political Determinants of Private Participation in Infrastructure
Moszoro, Marian - 2014
, political, and governance variables to assess the determinants of private financing of infrastructure in emerging markets and … developing economies. Controlling for economic characteristics, we find that overall private participation of infrastructure … infrastructure. Our results do not vary when controlling for income inequality and across quartiles of experience, country wealth …
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The Kafka quagmire for the poor in India
Belk, Russell W.; Ghoshal, Tanuka - In: Journal of marketing management : MM 33 (2017) 17/18, pp. 1559-1569
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Does culture matter for the economic performance of countries? : an overview of the literature
Castellani, Marco - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 41 (2019) 4, pp. 700-717
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The Unmatched Economic Development of the Past Two Centuries. the Need for an Explanation
Baumol, William J. - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2006) 1
Never before in human history has the growth of per-capita economic production even remotely come close to that of contemporary Western Europe, the United States and a few other countries. The contribution to innovation, education and human health is also unparalleled. The explanation for these...
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Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth
Morck, Randall; Nakamura, Masao - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Rosenstein-Rodan (1943) and others posit that rapid development requires a 'big push' -- the coordinated rapid growth of diverse complementary industries, and suggests a role for government in providing such coordination. We argue that Japan's zaibatsu, or pyramidal business groups, provided...
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Accessibility and infrastructure in border cities
Sahel and West Africa Club; OECD - 2019
This report, part of the “Cities” collection, analyses road accessibility, transport corridors and checkpoints set up in border towns in West Africa. An innovative model shows that the population base of border towns could be 14% greater if there were no delays at border crossings. The...
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Revenue Slumps and Fiscal Capacity : Evidence from Brazil
Ferraz, Claudio; Foremny, Dirk; Santini, Juan Francisco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
and the bureaucracy. These findings emphasize the importance of rules that reduce the reliance on non-tax revenues and …
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