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Fiscal Centralization and the Political Process

Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

. We show that corruption opportunities are lower under centralization at each period of time. However, centralization … makes more difficult for citizens to detect corrupt incumbents. Thus, corruption is easier under centralization for low …

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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

Does information about rampant political corruption increase electoral participation and the support for challenger … copious corruption not only decreases incumbent support in local elections in Mexico, but also decreases voter turnout …

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Community-based Targeting and Initial Local Conditions: Evidence from Indonesia’s IDT Program

Yamauchi, Chikako - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

Community-based selection of social program recipients has the potential to benefit from local knowledge about individuals in need. This informational advantage however might be offset by local elite capture and administrative incompetency. Using Indonesia's anti-poverty program, this paper...

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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries

Alesina, Alberto F; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper has three goals. The first (and perhaps the most important one) is to provide a new compilation of data on ethnic, linguistic and religious composition at the sub-national level for a large number of countries. This data set allows us to measure segregation of different ethnic,...

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Political Connections and Firm Value: Evidence from the Regression Discontinuity Design of Close Gubernatorial Elections

Do, Quoc-Anh; Lee, Yen-Teik; Nguyen, Bang Dang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Using the regression discontinuity design of close gubernatorial elections in the U.S., we identify a significant and positive impact of the social networks of corporate directors and politicians on firm value. Firms connected to elected governors increase their value by 3.89%. Political...

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Corruption And Competition In Public Market Auctions

Compte, Olivier; Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane; Verdier, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper investigates the effect of corruption on competition in government procurement auctions. Our assumption is … corruption is to facilitate collusion in price between firms. This can result in high public spending and inefficient allocation … which unilateral anti-corruption controls may restore price competition. …

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The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh

Barron, Patrick; Olken, Benjamin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

when designing anti-corruption policy. …

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Explaining Leakage of Public Funds

Reinikka, Ritva; Svensson, Jakob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Using panel data from an unique survey of public primary schools in Uganda we assess the degree of leakage of public funds in education. The survey data reveal that on average, during the period 1991-95, schools received only 13% of what the central government contributed to the schools’...

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Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality

Olken, Benjamin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Accurate citizen perceptions of corruption are crucial for the political process to effectively restrain corrupt … corruption in a road-building project in their village with a more objective measure of `missing expenditures' in the project. I … between corruption in a particular road project and general corruption in the village. The magnitude of their information …

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The Political Resource Curse

Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor. …

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