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From Lapdogs to Watchdogs : Random Auditor Assignment and Municipal Fiscal Performance
Vannutelli, Silvia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A classic problem in public finance is the over-expenditure of local governments in expectation of a bailout from higher-level administrations. While monitoring could mitigate agency problems, it can itself be rendered ineffective if auditors are corruptible. I evaluate whether limiting...
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Corruption as a Shared Dilemma : Survey Evidence from Legislators and Citizens in Three Countries
Fisman, Raymond; Ferroni, Matteo F.; Golden, Miriam A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We conduct parallel surveys of legislators and citizens in three countries to study their tolerance for corruption. In …-offs between, for example, probity and efficiency: both perceive corruption as undesirable but prevalent. These novel descriptive … data further reveal that legislators generally have accurate beliefs about public opinion on corruption and understand its …
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Happiness Dynamics, Reference Dependence, and Motivated Beliefs in U.S. Presidential Elections
Kimball, Miles S.; Raymond, Collin; Zhou, Jiannan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Collecting and analyzing panel data over the last four U.S. presidential elections, we study the drivers of self-reported happiness. We relate our empirical findings to existing models of elation, reference dependence, and belief formation. In addition to corroborating previous findings in the...
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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-being Reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We show individuals' reports of subjective well being in Europe did decline in the Great Recession and during the Covid pandemic on most measures and on four bordering countries to Ukraine after the Russian invasion in 2022. However, the movements are not large and are not apparent everywhere....
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Police Discretion and Public Safety
Gonçalves, Felipe M.; Mello, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the implications of police discretion for public safety. Highway patrol officers exercise discretion over fines by deviating from statutory fine rules. Relying on variation across officers in this discretionary behavior, we find that harsher sanctions reduce future traffic offending and...
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Campaign Connections
Bazzi, Samuel; Labanca, Claudio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper explores the labor market returns to working on a victorious political campaign. Using unique administrative data from Brazil, we track the earnings and employment of campaign workers before and after close elections spanning nearly 20 years. We identify sizable returns to working for...
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Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule : A Model of Personal Rule
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
. Kleptocratic policies are more likely when foreign aid and rents from natural resources provide rulers with substantial resources …
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Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule : A Model of Personal Rule
Acemoglu, Daron - 2003
. Kleptocratic policies are more likely when foreign aid and rents from natural resources provide rulers with substantial resources …
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Organizing a Kingdom
Angelucci, Charles; Meraglia, Simone; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We develop a framework that examines the organizational challenges faced by central rulers governing large territories, where administrative power needs to be delegated to local elites. We describe how economic change can motivate rulers to empower different elites and emphasize the interaction...
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Corruption and natural resource rents : evidence from quantile regression
Okada, Keisuke; Samreth, Sovannroeun - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 20, pp. 1490-1493
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