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Pay for politicians and candidate selection: An empirical analysis
Kotakorpi, Kaisa Ilona; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010
A growing theoretical literature on the effect of politicians' salaries on the average level of skills of political candidates yields ambiguous predictions. In this paper, we estimate the effect of pay for politicians on the level of education of parliamentary candidates. We take advantage of an...
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The Impact of Government Size on Corruption: A Meta-Regression Analysis
Bonanno, Graziella; Errico, Lucia; Fiorino, Nadia; … - 2024
We perform a Meta-Regression Analysis (MRA) of the literature on government size and corruption, examining 450 …-sectional data. Moreover, the type of indicator used to measure corruption has a significant impact on the sign of the relationship … significant results, whereas we find a positive relationship between the countries' corruption index and the effect size. …
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The looks of a winner: beauty, gender, and electoral success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2007
We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral campaigns. Our investigation is based on visual assessments of 1,929 Finnish political candidates from 10,011 respondents (of which 3,708 were Finnish). An increase in beauty by one standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264132
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The right look: Conservative politicians look better than their voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010
Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...
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The Looks of a Winner : Beauty, Gender, and Electoral Success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2007
We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral campaigns. Our investigation is based on visual assessments of 1,929 Finnish political candidates from 10,011 respondents (of which 3,708 were Finnish). An increase in beauty by one standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049900
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The Optimal Duration of Contracts
Poutvaara, Panu; Takalo, Tuomas; Wagener, Andreas - 2017
We study the optimal duration of contracts in a principal-agent framework with both moral hazard and adverse selection. Agents decide on a contract-specific and non-verifiable investment. Incentive compatibility requires that initial contracts, which serve to screen the ability of newly hired...
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The Historical Roots of Corruption and Economic Development in Italy
Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2013
social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We … test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces, and address the possible endogeneity of corruption by applying an … IV model. We use three sets of historical instruments for corruption: 1) foreign dominations in 16th-17th century, 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293919
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Political parties and network formation
Miettinen, Topi; Poutvaara, Panu - 2006
We argue that anticorruption laws may provide an efficiency rationale for why political parties should meddle in the distribution of political nominations and government contracts. Anticorruption laws forbid trade in spoils that politicians distribute. However, citizens may pay for gaining...
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Term limits: do they really affect fiscal policy choices?
Dalle Nogare, Chiara; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2008
According to reputational models of political economy, a term limit may change the behavior of a chief executive because he does not have to stand for election. We test this hypothesis in a sample of 52 countries over the period 1977-2000, using government spending, social and welfare spending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264291
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Term Limits : Do They Really Affect Fiscal Policy Choices?
Dalle Nogare, Chiara; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2021
According to reputational models of political economy, a term limit may change the behavior of a chief executive because he does not have to stand for election. We test this hypothesis in a sample of 52 countries over the period 1977-2000, using government spending, social and welfare spending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316609