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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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Demand for pharmaceutical drugs: A choice modelling experiment

Merino, Anna - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003

Despite the importance of supplier inducement and brand loyalty in the drug purchasing process, little empirical evidence is to be found with regard to the influence that these factors exert on patients’ decisions. Under the new scenario of easier access to information, patients are becoming...

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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...

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The role of incidental variables of time in mood assessment

Hogarth, Robin; Portell, Mariona; Cuxart, Anna - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010

Determining what influences mood is important for theories of emotion and research on subjective well-being. We consider three sets of factors: activities in which people are engaged; individual differences; and incidental variables that capture when mood is measured, e.g., time-of-day. These...

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Promoting rule compliance in daily-life: Evidence from a randomized field experiment in the public libraries of Barcelona

Apesteguia, Jose; Funk, Patricia; Iriberri, Nagore - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010

We study how to promote compliance with rules in everyday situations. Having access to unique data on the universe of users of all public libraries in Barcelona, we test the effect of sending email messages with dierent contents. We find that users return their items earlier if asked to do so in...

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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...

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