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Intergovernmental Grants and Bureaucratic Power
Dahlberg, Matz; Nilsson, Heléne Lundqvist; Mörk, Eva - CESifo - 2008
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to … influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in … such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a new way of testing the hypothesis that bureaucrats can and do in fact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406110
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National Representation in Multinational Institutions: The Case of the European Central Bank
Badinger, Harald; Nitsch, Volker - CESifo - 2011
Multinational institutions face an important trade-off when hiring personnel. On the one hand, hiring decisions are based, as in most organizations, on a candidate’s professional qualifications. On the other hand, multinational institutions often aim for broad national representation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294095
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The Interrelationship between Formal and Informal Delcentralization and its Impact on Sub-Central Governance Performance: The Case of Vietnam
Vu, Thanh Thuy; Zouikri, Messaoud; Deffains, Bruno - CESifo - 2012
Formal and informal institutions are often viewed as complements or substitutes in empirical and theoretical works. However, no evidence of complementarities or substitutes is found in our empirical analysis of the interrelation between formal and informal decentralization across 64 provinces of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645635
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Time Consistency and Bureaucratic Budget Competition
Kessing, Sebastian; Konrad, Kai A. - CESifo - 2006
for budgets in a dynamic setting. Bureaucrats who are interested in maximising their divisions’ output employ excess labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181370
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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - CESifo - 2008
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy’s best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions in the public and private sector,using a model of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406416
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Using Real-Time Data to Test for Political Budget Cycles
Jong-A-Pin, Richard; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2012
We use real]time annual data on the fiscal balance, government current spending, current revenues and net capital outlays as published at a half yearly frequency in the OECD Economic Outlook for 25 OECD countries. For each fiscal year t we have a number of forecasts, a first release, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575440
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Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2015
We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011120473
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A Simple Four Quadrants Model to Monitor the Performance of Local Governments
Ballanti, Danilo; Dispotico, Roberto; Porcelli, Francesco; … - CESifo - 2014
This paper, conducted as part of the research activities of SOSE S.p.A., develops a simple and innovative model to evaluate the performance of local government in the provision of local public services. The model employs a reduced set of information and fewer assumptions than traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960639
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Donating Time or Money: Are they Substitutes or Complements?
Hartmann, Bastian; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2012
Decisions to donate time or money for charitable purposes are typically seen as make-or-buy decisions, implying that there should be a clear distinction between individuals engaging in one of these two forms of giving and that this distinction should be somehow linked to opportunity costs. But...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555695
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Racial Group Affinity and Religious Giving: Evidence from Congregation-Level Panel Data
Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Guse, A. Joseph - CESifo - 2014
Since giving to religious organizations constitutes a substantial portion of total charitable giving, an understanding of the determinants of religious giving is a vital policy concern. Drawing on a novel congregation-level panel dataset, we examine whether religious giving is driven by...
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