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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 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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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
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Sports Clubs and Populism : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from German Cities
Foertsch, Mona; Roesel, Felix - 2023
Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also vulnerable to populism? We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sports club membership in German cities. Sports clubs are booming in cities with successful soccer teams which pass the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261682
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Interest groups and government spending in Italy, 1876 - 1913
Fiorino, Nadia; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2009
In the last two decades of the XIX century Italy became an industrial country. Historians maintain that this process was affected by the action of some interest groups that pursued both state protection from competition and specific public expenditure programs. Starting from the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273796
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Spatial Concentration of Military Dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa (1977-2007)
Caruso, Raul; Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2014
We empirically investigate the existence of spatial autocorrelation between military dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1977 through 2007. We apply a Bayesian SAR probit regression, extended to a pooled model. We find a robust and positive spatial autocorrelation coefficient, which shows a...
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Electoral Externalities in Federations - Evidence from German Opinion Polls
Frei, Xenia; Langer, Sebastian; Lehmann, Robert; … - 2017
Party performance in state and federal elections is highly interdependent. Federal elections impact regional voting dynamics and vice versa (electoral externalities). We quantify the extent of simultaneous electoral externalities between two layers of government. We apply vector autoregressions...
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The urban-rural gap in health care infrastructure - does government ideology matter?
Potrafke, Niklas; Roesel, Felix - 2019
Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as health care facilities have substantial socio-economic effects. Little is known, however, as to why publicly provided goods diverge among urban and rural regions. We exploit narrow parliamentary majorities in German states between 1950 and...
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The Words That Keep People Apart. Official Language, Accountability and Fiscal Capacity
Baronchelli, Adelaide; Foresta, Alessandra; Ricciuti, … - 2020
This paper empirically evaluates the impact of accountability on fiscal capacity. It adopts an instrumental variable approach using, as an instrument, the measurement of how far, on average, official language differs from ordinary language. The main hypothesis is that if the average citizen...
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