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Size, determinants, and consequences of corruption in China's provinces : the MIMIC approach

Chen, Hailin; Schneider, Friedrich; Sun, Qunli - 2018 - 20 July 2018, 6th Version

This paper uses a multiple indicators and multiple causes (MIMIC) model and estimates the extent of corruption in 30 … Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2015. Treating corruption as an unobserved latent variable, the MIMIC results show that both … government size and public investment have significant positive effects on corruption, while fiscal decentralization, citizen …

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"Tiger-hunting" and life satisfaction : a matter of trust

Zhang, Youxing; Howley, Peter; Hetschko, Clemens - 2022

political support. Combining data on the public disclosure of anti-corruption efforts and individual well-being in China, we …

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Petty corruption and citizen feedback

Angelucci, Charles; Russo, Antonio - 2015

Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …

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A dynamic theory of regulatory capture

De Chiara, Alessandro; Schwarz, Marco - 2021

Firms often try to influence individuals that, like regulators, are tasked with advising or deciding on behalf of a third party. In a dynamic regulatory setting, we show that a firm may prefer to capture regulators through the promise of a lucrative future job opportunity (i.e., the...

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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power

Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - 2008

In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...

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Political accountability and real authority of government bureaucracy

Dodlova, Marina - 2013

In a country with weak institutional constraints on the executive, the real power might belong to the government bureaucracy rather than to an autocratic leader. We combine the Aghion-Tirole definition of formal and real authority with the Barro-Ferejohn model of political agency to study the...

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Corruption in Russia : historic legacy and systemic nature

Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2018

This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty … towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …

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Compliance costs, corruption and the differentiation of bureaucratic services

Seidel, André - 2015 - This version: 12.17.2015

How to fight petty day-to-day corruption is a question often debated by politicians, by the public and in the economic … literature. Early studies have noted that a simple and well-known way to fight day-to-day corruption is to create competition … in a way that eliminates corruption. This is due to a tradeoff between corruption and compliance costs. More …

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What are the priorities of bureaucrats? : evidence from conjoint experiments with procurement officials

Tukiainen, Janne; Blesse, Sebastian; Bohne, Albrecht; … - 2023 - This version: December 6, 2022

While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit preferences of 900+ real-world public procurement officials in Finland and Germany. This is an important pursuit as they report having sizeable discretion and minimal extrinsic...

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Are public sector workers different? : cross-European evidence from elderly workers and retirees

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015

We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...

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