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Power over prosecutors corrupts politicians: cross country evidence using a new indicator
van Aaken, Anne; Feld, Lars P.; Voigt, Stefan - 2008
hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular kind of crime, namely corruption. In order to test it, it was … show that de facto independence of prosecution agencies robustly reduces corruption of officials. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270593
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Perception vs. Experience : Explaining Differences in Corruption Measures Using Microdata
Gutmann, Jerg - 2020
Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no "objective" measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843434
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The Economic Effects of Direct Democracy - A First Global Assessment
Blume, Lorenz; Müller, Jens; Voigt, Stefan - 2021
higher government effectiveness. The effects on government expenditure, corruption and productivity have the expected signs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316691
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The economic effects of constitutions: replicating - and extending - Persson and Tabellini
Blume, Lorenz; Müller, Jens; Voigt, Stefan; Wolf, Carsten - 2007
Persson and Tabellini (2003) show that presidential regimes and majoritarian election systems have important effects on fiscal policy, government effectiveness and productivity. Here, their dataset is extended in a number of ways: the number of countries included is increased from 85 to up to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264145
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The economic effects of direct democracy: a first global assessment
Blume, Lorenz; Müller, Jens; Voigt, Stefan - 2007
higher government effectiveness. The effects on government expenditure, corruption and productivity have the expected signs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264252
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Does membership in international organizations increase governments' credibility?: testing the effects of delegating powers
Dreher, Axel; Voigt, Stefan - 2008
This paper analyzes whether nation-state governments can increase their credibility by becoming members of international organizations. Credibility is an important asset because it determines the real interest rate and is expected to have an important impact on investment and growth. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264350
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The (economic) effects of lay participation in courts: a cross-country analysis
Voigt, Stefan - 2008
Legal philosophers like Montesquieu, Hegel and Tocqueville have argued that lay participation in judicial decision-making would have benefits reaching far beyond the realm of the legal system narrowly understood. From an economic point of view, lay participation in judicial decision-making can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264411
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The relevance of judicial procedure for economic growth
Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2008
It has been argued that procedural formalism undermines economic efficiency by fostering rent-seeking and corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264530
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Determinants of constitutional change: Why do countries change their form of governments?
Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2010
party competition, as well as the extent to which knowledge resources are distributed among the members of society. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270500
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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization : a cross-country assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009
This paper explores the idea that institutional details matter and that attempts to estimate the economic effects of federalism by employing a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a principal component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271861