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Slavery, Corruption, and Institutions
Rauscher, Michael - 2019
economy may be trapped in a locally stable high-corruption, high-slavery equilibrium and major changes in government policies …
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One size fits all? : decentralization, corruption, and the monitoring of bureaucrats
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2009
The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275803
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The empire is dead, long live the empire! Long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy
Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - 2011
Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274931
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Shadow economy, tax morale, governance and institutional quality: a panel analysis
Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2007
This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276598
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A model of strategic delegation in contests between groups
Brandauer, Stefan; Englmaier, Florian - 2006
We analyze a contest between two groups where group members have differing valuations for the contested rent. Generically the pivotal group member with the median valuation of the rent will not act himself but will want to send a group member that has preferences different to her own into the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261408
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Who Lobbies Whom? Special Interests and Hired Guns
Ellis, Christopher J. - 2019
We model which special interest groups lobby which policymakers directly, and which employ for-profit intermediaries. We show that special interests affected by policy issues that frequently receive high political salience lobby policymakers directly, while those that rarely receive high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892218
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Technological determinants of the group-size paradox
Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2011
The present paper analyzes situations in which groups compete for rents. A major result in the literature has been that there are both cases where larger groups have advantages and cases where they have disadvantages. The paper provides two intuitive criteria which for groups with homogenous...
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External sovereign debt in a monetary union: Bailouts and the role of corruption
Achury, Carolina; Koulovatianos, Christos; Tsoukalas, … - 2011
contrary, under corruption, we show that bailouts are ineffective unless rent-seeking groups are eradicated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277405
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The citizen-candidate model with imperfect policy control
Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - 2012
We examine the two-candidate equilibria of the citizen-candidate model when the implemented policy arises from a compromise between the government and an unelected external power. We show that the equilibria of this model differ significantly from the original: the distance between the...
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What are the Priorities of Bureaucrats? Evidence from Conjoint Experiments with Procurement Officials
Tukiainen, Janne; Blesse, Sebastian; Bohne, Albrecht; … - 2023
While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014263185