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Good, Bad or Ugly? On the Effects of Fiscal Rules with Creative Accounting
Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Do fiscal rules likely lead to fiscal adjustment, or do they encourage the use of ‘creative accounting’? This question is studied with a model in which fiscal rules are imposed on ‘measured’ fiscal variables, which can differ from ‘true’ variables because there is a margin for...
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Decentralization and Electoral Accountability: Incentives, Separation and Voter Welfare
Hindricks, Jean; Lockwood, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper studies the relationship between fiscal decentralization and electoral accountability, by analysing how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504327
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Looking Beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes
Chong, Alberto; De La O, Ana; Karlan, Dean S.; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
parties? Democratic theory assumes that offering more information to voters will enhance electoral accountability. However, if … flows of information are necessary, they may be insufficient to improve political accountability, since voters may respond … that could allow increased access to information to promote government accountability. …
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Making A Difference
Francois, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Despite the potential for free-riding, workers motivated by `making a difference' to the mission or output of an establishment may donate labour to it. When the establishment uses performance related compensation (PRC), these labour donations closely resemble a standard private provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662127
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Making A Difference
Francois, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Despite the potential for free-riding, workers motivated by ‘making a difference’ to the mission or output of an establishment may donate labour to it. When the establishment uses performance related compensation (PRC), these labour donations closely resemble a standard private provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792389
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Soaring Minds: The Flight of Israel’s Economists
Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Despite their small number, Israeli economists have become an important fixture in the international academic scene. In recent years, this phenomenon has been characterized by an additional attribute: the number of Israelis who have chosen to leave the country’s universities - or not to return...
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Ranking Israel's Economists
Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
One of the more important measures of a scholar’s research impact is the number of times that the scholar’s work is cited by other researchers as a source of knowledge. This paper conducts a first of its kind examination on Israel’s academic economists and economics departments, ranking...
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Brain Drained: A Tale of Two Countries
Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper provides a comparative examination of how public universities in two countries, the United States and Israel, have evolved over the past few decades - and how differences between the two have culminated in a rate of academic brain drain from the latter to the former that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656177
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Decentralized Deterrence, with an Application to Labor Tax Auditing
Di Porto, Edoardo; Persico, Nicola; Sahuguet, Nicolas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Deterrence of illegal activities is frequently carried out by many atomistic auditors (tax auditors, law enforcement agents, etc.). Not much is known either normatively about the best way to incentivize atomistic auditors, nor positively about what these incentives actually look like in real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083887
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Opportunistic Political Cycles: Test in a Young Democracy Setting
Akhmedov, Akhmed; Ravitchev, Alexei; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Despite the fact that theoretical research on opportunistic political cycles is very intuitive and well developed, empirical literature has found fairly weak evidence of opportunistic political cycles. This Paper tests the theory in a decade-old democracy – Russia. We find strong evidence of...
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