both the absolute and relative electoral returns of the governing party in a region has traditionally been followed by …

performance, highly kleptocratic countries are expected to show higher levels of politicisation of the public purse. The article …

, and businessmen run to capture those rents. Second, the returns to businessmen from policy influence must not be too large … campaign promises, and 2) in regions where returns to policy influence (measured by regional resource abundance) are large, but …

Performance indicators are increasingly used to regulate quality in health care and other areas of the public sector …

We analyse the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and … ownership improves economic performance, but domestic private ownership does not, relative to state-owned firms. Foreign firms … increasing profit. Ownership concentration is associated with superior performance, thus providing support to the agency theory …

against our data. We find that team size affects the impact of the incentive scheme upon performance. Moreover, while the …