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Sovereign Default and Tax-smoothing in the Shadow of Corruption and Institutional Weakness

Azzimonti, Marina; Mitra, Nirvana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

, particularly tax-smoothing practices. Focusing on democratic representation and control of corruption, our dynamic political …

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Secrets in Asset Purchases : Estimating the Unofficial Incomes of Officials

Deng, Yongheng; Wei, Shang-jin; Wu, Jing; Zhang, Rongjie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

the recent anti-corruption campaign. An analysis of a separate cross-city dataset corroborates the key conclusion …

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The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Luo, Jin; Morgan, Andrew J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...

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The Causes and Consequences of U.S. Teacher Strikes

Lyon, Melissa Arnold - 2024

The U.S. has witnessed a resurgence of labor activism, with teachers at the forefront. We examine how teacher strikes affect compensation, working conditions, and productivity with an original dataset of 772 teacher strikes generating 48 million student days idle between 2007 and 2023. Using an...

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Government Audits

Cuneo, Martina; Leder-Luis, Jetson; Vannutelli, Silvia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Audits are a common mechanism used by governments to monitor public spending. In this paper, we discuss the effectiveness of auditing with theory and empirics. In our model, the value of audits depends on both the underlying presence of abuse and the government's ability to observe it and...

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Detecting Fraud in Development Aid

Ensminger, Jean Evelyn; Leder-Luis, Jetson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

When organizations have limited accountability, antifraud measures, including auditing, often face barriers due to institutional resistance and practical difficulties on the ground. This is especially true in development aid, where aid organizations face incentives to suppress information about...

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Electoral College and Election Fraud

Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

One frequently overlooked aspect of the U.S.-style electoral college system is that it discourages election fraud. In a presidential election based on the popular vote, competing political parties are motivated to manipulate votes in areas where they hold the most significant influence, such as...

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Vertical Integration, Institutional Determinants and Impact : Evidence from China

Fan, Joseph P.H. - 2009

transaction difficulties. But, such environments often also feature highly interventionist government, and even corruption …

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Corruption, Inequality and Fairness

Alesina, Alberto - 2005

Bigger governments raise the possibilities for corruption; more corruption may in turn raise the support for … redistributive policies that intend to correct the inequality and injustice generated by corruption. We formalize these insights in a … simple dynamic model. A positive feedback from past to current levels of taxation and corruption arises either when wealth …

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Horizontal and Vertical Conflict : Experimental Evidence

Galiani, Sebastian - 2016

charge of running the government acquire and retain rents in the process of doing so. We experimentally explore the … endogenous rents, and common-agency models. We adapt these models to a laboratory setting and test their main theoretical … to higher rents, which is one of the theoretical predictions of the parametrized electoral and common-agency models that …

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