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Audit Risk and Rent Extraction: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Brazil

Zamboni, Yves; Litschig, Stephan - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

audit risk by about 20 percentage points reduced the proportion of procurement processes with evidence of corruption by … about 15 percentage points and the share of audited resources involved in corruption by about 10 percentage points. We show … that these results are invariant to alternative corruption codings that have been used in prior literature. In contrast, we …

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Promoting Rule Compliance in Daily-Life: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in the Public Libraries of Barcelona

Apesteguia, Jose; Funk, Patricia; Iriberri, Nagore - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

We study how to promote compliance with rules in every day situations. Having access to unique data on the universe of users of all public libraries in Barcelona, we test the eﬀect of sending email messages with diﬀerent contents. We ﬁnd that users return their items earlier if asked to do...

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Judicial Presence and Rent Extraction

Litschig, Stephan; Zamboni, Yves - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

as irregularities related to waste or corruption uncovered by auditors. Our unique dataset at the level of individual … inspections with irregularities related to waste or corruption by about 10 percent or 0.3 standard deviations. …

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Welfare of Naive and Sophisticated Players in School Choice

Apesteguia, Jose; Ballester, Miguel Angel - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

Two main school choice mechanisms have attracted the attention in the literature: Boston and deferred acceptance (DA). The question arises on the ex-ante welfare implications when the game is played by participants that vary in terms of their strategic sophistication. Abdulkadiroglu, Che and...

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Rhetoric and Analogies

Aragonès, Enriqueta; Gilboa, Itzhak; Postlewaite, Andrew; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

The art of rhetoric may be defined as changing other people’s minds (opinions, beliefs) without providing them new information. One technique heavily used by rhetoric employs analogies. Using analogies, one may draw the listener’s attention to similarities between cases and to re-organize...

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The Disadvantage of Winning an Election

Aragonès, Enriqueta; Sánchez-Pagés, Santiago - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

This paper analyzes the problem that an incumbent faces during the legislature when deciding how to react to popular initiatives or policy proposals coming from diﬀerent sources. We argue that this potential source of electoral disadvantage that the incumbent obtains after being elected can...

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On Strategy-proofness and Symmetric Single-Peakedness

Massé, Jordi; Barreda, Inés Moreno de - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

We characterize the class of strategy-proof social choice functions on the domain of symmetric single-peaked preferences. This class is strictly larger than the set of generalized median voter schemes (the class of strategy-proof and tops-only social choice functions on the domain of single...

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A Model of Participatory Democracy: Undestanding the Case of Porto Alegre

Aragonès, Enriqueta; Sánchez-Pagés, Santiago - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

Participatory Democracy is a process of collective decision making that combines elements from both Direct and Representative Democracy: Citizens have the power to decide on policy and politicians assume the role of policy implementation. The aim of this paper is to understand how Participatory...

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Strategy-proof social choice

Barberà, Salvador - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

This paper surveys the literature on strategy-proofness from a historical perspective. While I discuss the connections with other works on incentives in mechanism design, the main emphasis is on social choice models. This article has been prepared for the Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare,...

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Voting by Committees under Constraints

Barberà, Salvador; Massó, Jordi; Neme, Alejandro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2001

We consider social choice problems where a society must choose a subset from a set of objects. Specifically, we characterize the families of strategy-proof voting procedures when not all possible subsets of objects are feasible, and voters' preferences are separable or additively representable.

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