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Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment: The Italian Case

Daniele, Vittorio; Marani, Ugo - CESifo - 2008

) inflows into Italy. The incidence of crime has been calculated considering the number of complaints for different crimes. The …This paper examines the impact of organized crime on the regional distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI … analysis shows how the correlation between organized crime is both negative and significant. This relationship appears strong …

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Contracts Offered by Bureaucrats

Khalil, Fahad; Kim, Doyoung; Lawarrée, Jacques - CESifo - 2013

We examine the power of incentives in bureaucracies by studying contracts offered by a bureaucrat to her agent. The bureaucrat operates under a fixed budget, optimally chosen by a funding authority, and she can engage in policy drift, which we define as inversely related to her intrinsic...

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Bureaucrats and Public Procurement

Bös, Dieter - CESifo - 2001

This paper deals with a Niskanen type of public-procurement agency. It is shown that the procurement game should be separated into an investment game and a project game, the first game to be played before nature determines the actual real-izations of benefit and costs of the project, the second...

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Do Institutions of Direct Democracy Tame the Leviathan? Swiss Evidence on the Structure of Expenditure for Public Education

Fischer, Justina A.V. - CESifo - 2005

The deleterious impact of institutions of direct legislation on student performance found in studies for both the U.S. and Switzerland has raised the question of what its transmission channels are. For the U.S., an increase in the ratio of administrative to instructional spending and larger...

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Contests Among Bureaucrats

Bös, Dieter - CESifo - 2002

This paper deals with double lobbying: several bureaucrats participate in joint lobbying to get a high total departmental budget, but they also engage in antagonistic lobbying to reap as high a share of the total budget as possible. The antagonistic lobbying constitutes a contest among the...

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Political Accountability and Real Authority of Government Bureaucracy

Dodlova, Marina - CESifo - 2013

bureaucracy rather than to an autocratic leader. We combine the Aghion-Tirole definition of formal and real authority with the …

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The Citizen-Candidate Model with Imperfect Policy Control

Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - CESifo - 2012

We examine the two-candidate equilibria of the citizen-candidate model when the implemented policy arises from a compromise between the government and an unelected external power. We show that the equilibria of this model differ significantly from the original: the distance between the...

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Globalization and Social Justice in OECD Countries

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2015

Social justice is a topic of importance to social scientists and also political decision makers. We examine the … relationship between globalization and social justice as measured by a new indicator for 31 OECD countries. The results show that … countries that experienced rapid globalization enjoy social justice. When the KOF index of globalization increases by one …

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Community Enterprises - An Institutional Innovation

Frey, Bruno S.; Lüthi, Roger; Osterloh, Margit - CESifo - 2011

Management research has long focused on the theory of the firm, studying for-profit organizations that produce privately owned resources based on central authority and within well-defined boundaries. In recent times, a new kind of enterprise has emerged that we call Community Enterprises. They...

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Justice under Uncertainty

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2013

An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy … their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty. …

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