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observe that corruption significantly decreases government spending on education, R&D and public health in China. We also …
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to contribute also an adequate share to the community. In such a situation trustworthiness of a government and trust in a … government is high. This paper provides empirical evidence that trust is crucial for fiscal performance using data for the full … sample of Swiss cantons over the 1981-2001 period. In cantons with high levels of trust, the level of indebtedness is …
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This paper analyzes the constitutional determinants of cost reimbursement rules. In order to design the optimal incentive schemes, a possibly partisan planner will take into account the market cost structure, the institutional design of the supervision hierarchical structure and its technology....
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openness, more access to media and relatively higher wages of government employees are markedly less corrupt; while social …
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In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...
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An incumbent government maximizes its chances of being reelected. Its objective function encompasses both social …
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This paper proposes different methods to aggregate heterogeneous policies for renewable energy. We compare time-varying indicators built using principal component analysis with average-based indicators. The main goal of the paper is to account for the evolution of both types of policy indicators...
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stock is examined. Replicator dynamics modeling participation and compliance are combined with pollution stock dynamics … auditing probability. Partial participation and partial compliance can be ES equilibria, with possible multiplicities, in … addition to the monomorphic equilibria of full (non) compliance. Convergence to these equilibria could be monotonic or …
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, cost effectiveness, equity, flexibility in the presence of new information, and incentives for participation and compliance … market-based approaches, especially those with price mechanisms; and participation and compliance incentives are inadequately … environmental outcome and efficiency, and between cost-effectiveness and incentives for participation and compliance. …
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This paper generalizes the classical theory of economic policy to a static LQ-strategic context between n players. We show how this generalized version of controllability can profitably be used to deal with policy ineffectiveness issues and Nash equilibrium existence.
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