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In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
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international financial decision-making, also as it relates to the legitimacy of the international system in the eyes of the public …
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the preservation of the central bank’s legitimacy requires that a clear line be drawn between the central bank’s provision …
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Using the regression discontinuity design of close gubernatorial elections in the U.S., we identify a significant and positive impact of the social networks of corporate directors and politicians on firm value. Firms connected to elected governors increase their value by 3.89%. Political...
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We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP...
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The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor. …
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. We show that corruption opportunities are lower under centralization at each period of time. However, centralization … makes more difficult for citizens to detect corrupt incumbents. Thus, corruption is easier under centralization for low …
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politician corruption that we conducted in North India is remarkably consistent with our theoretical predictions. …
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We study the emergence and interaction of red tape and corruption in a principal-bureaucrat-agent hierarchy. The … the social optimum if the bureaucrat in charge of red tape is corrupt. We consider two types of corruption. First, the … bribes to conceal the information produced through red tape. The former kind of corruption tends to reduce red tape, while …
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enforcement of property rights influences the ex-post distribution of rents, there is room for corruption. We characterize the …) rents to government employees; ii) corruption; and iii) misallocation of talent. Therefore, these observations are not by … corruption and the misallocation of talent, and increase investment. It will also often be the case that bureaucracies will …
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