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Corruption and competition in procurement
Celentani, Marco; Ganuza, Juan J. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000
level lower than the announced. We compute the equilibrium level of corruption and we study the impact on corruption of the … competition in the market for procurement agents. We identify the effects that influence the equilibrium level of corruption and … show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, corruption may well be increasing in competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704948
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Audit risk and rent extraction: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in Brazil
Litschig, Stephan; Zamboni, Yves - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
percentage points. This reduction was driven entirely by irregularities involving mismanagement or corruption. In contrast, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002565
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Corruption and the Hadleyburg effect
Celentani, Marco; Ganuza, Juan J. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999
We study the dynamics of corruption relying on two fundamental observations: (a) Given agents detected as corrupt are … typically fired and replaced, the historical levels of corruption have an impact on current corruption through the distribution … of corruption costs of old agents; (b) Institutions negatively affected by their agents' corrupt activities are likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772216
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Organized vs. competitive corruption
Celentani, Marco; Ganuza, Juan J. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001
We study bureaucratic corruption in a model in which a constituency sets required levels for a given set of activities … setup to study the impact on equilibrium corruption of the degree of decentralization of corruption. To do this we compute … equilibrium corruption in two different settings: 1) Each bureaucrat acts in such a way as to maximize his own individual utility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772501
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Are rules-based government programs shielded from special-interest politics? Evidence from revenue-sharing transfers in Brazil
Litschig, Stephan - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008
Manipulation of government finances for the benefit of narrowly defined groups is usually thought to be limited to the part of the budget over which politicians exercise discretion in the short run, such as earmarks. Analyzing a revenue-sharing program between the central and local governments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772568
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On the external validity of social-preference games: A systematic lab-field study
Galizzi, Matteo M.; Martinez, Daniel Navarro - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2015
We present a lab-field experiment designed to assess systematically the external validity of social preferences elicited in a variety of experimental games. We do this by comparing behavior in the different games with a number of behaviors elicited in the field and with self-reported behaviors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122325
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Under-achievement and the glass ceiling: Evidence from a TV game show
Hogarth, Robin; Karelaia, Natalia; Trujillo, Carlos Andrés - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009
We use a Colombian TV game show to test gender differences in competitive behavior where there is no opportunity for discrimination and females face no genderspecific external constraints. Each game started with six contestants who had to answer general knowledge questions in private. There were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029664
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Emotion and reason in everyday risk perception
Hogarth, Robin; Portell, Mariona; Cuxart, Anna; Kolev, … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008
Although research has documented the importance of emotion in risk perception, little is known about its prevalence in everyday life. Using the Experience Sampling Method, 94 part-time students were prompted at random – via cellular telephones – to report on mood state and three emotions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029666
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Una modelización de los años de vida ajustados por la calidad como utilidades esperadas
Abellán, José M.; Pinto, José L. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1997
En el presente trabajo, los a\~nos de vida ajustados por la calidad (AVAC), son caracterizados como funciones de utilidad von Newman--Morgenstern. Esta caracterizaci\'on se efect\'ua para dos problemas de elecci\'on: la elecci\'on entre loter{\'\i}as definidas sobre estados de salud cr\'onicos y...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572654
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Una modelización de los años de vida ajustados por la calidad como utilidades esperadas
Abellán, José M.; Pinto, José L. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1997
En el presente trabajo, los a\~nos de vida ajustados por la calidad (AVAC), son caracterizados como funciones de utilidad von Newman--Morgenstern. Esta caracterizaci\'on se efect\'ua para dos problemas de elecci\'on: la elecci\'on entre loter{\'\i}as definidas sobre estados de salud cr\'onicos y...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771940