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UNDERGROUND ACTIVITY AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: PRODUCTIVE, PROTECTIVE AND PREDATORY BEHAVIOR IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003

clash, noncompliant behaviors proliferate, among them, tax evasion, corruption, bribery, organized criminality, and theft of …, circumvention, abuse, and/or corruption of institutional rules--comprise what we can be termed underground economies. A variety of …

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Slackers and Zealots: Civil Service, Policy Discretion, and Bureaucratic Capacity

Gailmard, Sean; Patty, John W. - EconWPA - 2005

job tenure encourage the development of expertise and problem solving capacity in the bureaucracy. In addition, we …

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Bureaucratic Corruption and Mass Media

Suphachalasai, Suphachol - EconWPA - 2005

equilibrium corruption in a bureaucracy are modeled. Different degrees of media freedom and competition affect production and …This paper investigates the relationship between a bureaucracy and mass media industry, and its implications to … corruption. We develop a bureaucratic model of corruption with mass media. A representative profit maximizing media firm seeks …

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Whose Ear (or Arm) to Bend? Information Sources and Venue Choice in Policy Making

Boehmke, Frederick J.; Gailmard, Sean; Patty, John W. - EconWPA - 2005

which multiple sources of information – from the bureaucracy, an interest group, or a legislature’s own in-house development … – can be brought to bear on policy. Lobbyists begin this process by selecting a venue – Congress or a standing bureaucracy …

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The Icelandic debate on the case for a fishing fee: A non- technical introduction

Matthiasson, Thorolfur - EconWPA - 2000

TResearch by J.D. Sachs and A.M. Warner, indicates that resource-rich countries are less successful in terms of economic growth than are resource-poor countries. The question of what measures Icelanders need to take to prevent their fishery wealth from limiting economic growth is posed. The main...

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Sons of Something: Taxes, Lawsuits and Local Political Control in Sixteenth Century Castile

Drelichman, Mauricio - EconWPA - 2005

The widespread ennoblement of the Spanish bourgeoisie in the sixteenth century has been traditionally considered one of the main causes of Iberian decline. I document and quantify the surge in ennoblement through a new time series of nobility cases preserved in the Archive of the Royal Chancery...

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Parasites

Mehlum, Halvor; Moene, Kalle; Torvik, Ragnar - EconWPA - 2004

Unproductive enterprises that feed on productive businesses, are rampant in developing countries. A consequence of parasitic enterprises is that societies may be locked into a self enforcing configuration of beliefs and practices that result in persistent poverty. When entrepreneurs of both...

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All that Glitters: Precious Metals, Rent Seeking and the Decline of Spain

Drelichman, Mauricio - EconWPA - 2004

The windfall acquisition of precious metals from American mines and the military revolution of the Early Modern age allowed the Spanish monarchs to command large amounts of credit andpursue an expansive imperial policy unlike that of any other Early Modern nation; when the costof the Empire...

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Rent-seeking with scarce talent: a model of preemptive hiring

Dakhlia, Sami; Pecorino, Paul - EconWPA - 2005

In the standard model of a rent-seeking contest, firms optimally employ resources in an attempt to win the contest and obtain the rent. Typically, it is assumed that these resources may be hired at any desired level at some fixed, exogenous per-unit cost. In many real-world rent-seeking...

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Global Threats and the Domestic Struggle for Power

Garfinkel, Michelle R. - EconWPA - 2003

This paper considers an economy where groups compete in a contest for power to redistribute future income in their favor. An increased external threat of terrorism--either an increase in the likelihood of a successful terrorist attack or a greater loss of income in the event of a successful...

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