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Political Competition, Tax Salience and Accountability: Theory and Some Evidence from Italy

Bracco, Emanuele; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela - 2013

This paper argues that high political competition does not necessarily induce policy makers to perform better as previous research has shown. We develop a political economy model and we show that when political competition is tight, and elected politicians can rely on more tax instruments, they...

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Why does environmental policy in representative democracies tend to be inadequate? A preliminary public choice analysis

Kollmann, Andrea; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2010

There is a widespread consensus among the most important players in developed countries (voters, politicians, producers, traditional and green interest groups and bureaucracies) that a shift towards an eco-social market economy is essential for sustainable growth. Nevertheless, market-based...

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EU Accession: A Boon or Bane for Corruption?

Alfano, Vincenzo; Capasso, Salvatore; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2020

The formation and expansion of the European Union (EU) have attracted much attention. However, the impact on the level of corruption in a nation after joining the Union has not been formally studied. Any nation that joins the European Union potentially faces two different and opposite effects on...

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International Disease Epidemics and the Shadow Economy

Berdiev, Aziz; Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W. - 2020

compliance with government regulations and lowers tax collections. Our main hypothesis is that epidemics positively impacts the …

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Explaining Vaccine Hesitancy: A Covid-19 Study of the United States

Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W. - 2022

Using recent data on the unvaccinated across U.S. states, this paper focuses on the determinants of vaccine hesitancy related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Results show that more prosperous states and states with more elderly and physicians have lower vaccine hesitancy. There was some evidence of...

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The Nexus between Corruption and Academic Freedom: An International Examination Using Mediation Analysis

Capasso, Salvatore; Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W. - 2022

Studying a relatively under-researched aspect in economics, this paper examines the nexus between corruption and academic freedom. Our main hypothesis is that greater corruption undermines academic freedom and we test this hypothesis using cross-national data for 104 nations over the years 2012...

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Give Me Your Best Shot! Diffusion of Complete versus Booster Covid-19 Vaccines across US Counties

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2023

government decentralization did not. There were differences in the signs, magnitudes, and significance of the influence of some …

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Comparative Venture Capital Governance. Private versus Labour Sponsored Venture Capital Funds

Cumming, Douglas J.; MacIntosh, Jeffrey G. - 2003

Private independent limited partnership venture capital funds receive capital from institutional investors, without tax incentives. Limited partnership investment activities are governed by restrictive covenants that are determined by negotiated contract between the fund managers (general...

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Government Decentralization and International Government Performance

Goel, Rajeev K.; Mazhar, Ummad; Nelson, Michael A.; … - 2016

Adding to the literature on the effects of government decentralization, this paper uses a large sample of individual … responses from more than a hundred countries about public’s perceptions of government’s performance along various dimensions to … qualitatively alike in that greater decentralization in each case improves perceptions of the government performance. Federalist …

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Does Gender Equality Translate into Economic Equality? Evidence from about 150 Nations

Nelson, Michael A.; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2021

government, lower fertility rates, and better overall gender equality experienced lower income inequality, ceteris paribus. These …

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