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Corruption Under Austerity
Daniele, Gianmarco; Giommoni, Tommaso - 2021
We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the … both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per euro spent. This effect emerges only in areas in which the DSP … put a binding cap on municipal capital expenditures. The reduction in corruption is linked to accountability incentives as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244240
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Corruption under Austerity
Daniele, Gianmarco; Giommoni, Tommaso - 2021
We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the … both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per euro spent. This effect emerges only in areas in which the DSP … put a binding cap on municipal capital expenditures. The reduction in corruption is linked to accountability incentives as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581972
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When Distrust Goes Viral : Causal Effects of COVID-19 on European Political Attitudes
Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea FM; … - 2021
To investigate how Covid-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about institutions, we conducted a large online survey experiment during the first wave of the epidemic (June). With a randomised survey ow we varied whether respondents are given Covid-related treatment questions first, before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251268
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Dynasties and the Political Budget Cycle
Daniele, Gianmarco; Vertier, Paul - 2016
Families often play a significant role in representative democracies. In this paper, we test the extent to which dynastic and non-dynastic leaders differ in their policy making. Our empirical analysis focuses on local politics in Italy, using a large sample of mayors and mayoral candidates in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584930
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Fueling Organized Crime: The Mexican War on Drugs and Oil Thefts
Battiston, Giacomo; Daniele, Gianmarco; Le Moglie, Marco; … - 2022
We show that the War on Drugs launched by the Mexican President Felipe Calderón in 2007 pushed drug cartels into large-scale oil thefts. Municipalities that the presidential candidate's party barely won at the local elections in 2007-2009 exhibit a larger increase in illegal oil taps over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177555
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Does the Winner Take It All? Redistributive Policies and Political Extremism
Daniele, Gianmarco; Piolatto, Amedeo; Sas, Willem - 2020
We show that regional heterogeneity of underlying fundamentals (e.g. economic history, geography, social capital) can lead to extreme voting in federations. When the outcome of federal policies – such as transfer schemes, market regulation or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207979
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Wind of Change? Experimental Survey Evidence on the Covid-19 Shock and Socio-Political Attitudes in Europe
Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; … - 2020
This paper investigates whether the Covid-19 crisis has affected the way we think about (political) institutions, as well as our broader (policy) attitudes and values. We fielded large online survey experiments in Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, well into the first wave of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269587
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Externalities and the Erosion of Trust
Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; … - 2023
We present a theory linking political and social trust to explain trust erosion in modern societies. Individuals disagree on the seriousness of an externality problem, which leads to diverging policy opinions on how to solve it. This heterogeneity has two important effects on trust. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377449
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When Distrust Goes Viral: Causal Effects of Covid-19 on European Political Attitudes
Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; … - 2020
To investigate how Covid-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about institutions, we conducted a large online survey experiment during the first wave of the epidemic (June). With a randomised survey ow we varied whether respondents are given Covid-related treatment questions first, before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012492950
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Does the Winner Take it All? Redistributive Policies and Political Extremism
Daniele, Gianmarco - 2020
We show that regional heterogeneity of underlying fundamentals (e.g. economic history, geography, social capital) can lead to extreme voting in federations. When the outcome of federal policies – such as transfer schemes, market regulation or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836939