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Exposition to Corruption and Political Participation: Evidence from Italian Municipalities
Giommoni, Tommaso - 2017
The aim of this paper is to study the effect of local corruption on political participation which is mediated by the … press. Focusing on Italy, we generate a daily measure of exposition to local corruption screening articles of main Italian … press agency. Applying an event-study methodology on local elections, two results emerge. First, corruption exposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744951
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Electoral Cycles in Perceived Corruption : International Empirical Evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International’s Perception of Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892191
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Government ideology and monetary policy in OECD countries
Cahan, Dodge; Dörr, Luisa; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
We examine the extent to which government ideology has influenced monetary policy in OECD countries since the 1970s. In line with important changes in the global economy and differences across countries, regression results yield heterogeneous inferences depending on the time period and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018240
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Electoral Cycles in Perceived Corruption: International Empirical Evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International’s Perception of Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957209
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Donor Ideology and Types of Foreign Aid
Brech, Viktor; Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
We examine how donor government ideology influences the composition of foreign aid flows. We use data for 23 OECD countries over the period 1960-2009 and distinguish between multilateral and bilateral aid, grants and loans, recipient characteristics such as income and political institutions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317042
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Punish One, Teach A Hundred: The Sobering Effect of Punishment on the Unpunished
D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Xie, Jin - 2019
Direct experience of a peer’s punishment might make non-punished peers reassess the probability and consequences of facing punishment and hence induce a change in their behavior. We test this mechanism in a setting, China, in which we observe the reactions to the same peer’s punishment by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018203
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Size, Determinants, and Consequences of Corruption in China's Provinces: The MIMIC Approach
Chen, Hailin; Schneider, Friedrich; Sun, Qunli - 2018
This paper uses a multiple indicators and multiple causes (MIMIC) model and estimates the extent of corruption in 30 … Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2015. Treating corruption as an unobserved latent variable, the MIMIC results show that both … government size and public investment have significant positive effects on corruption, while fiscal decentralization, citizen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931925
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Incomplete property rights and overinvestment
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2009
I consider a model in which an asset owner must decide how much to invest in his asset mindful of the fact that an encroacher's valuation of the asset is increasing in the asset owner's investment. Due to incomplete property rights, the encroacher and asset owner engage in a contest over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265975
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The Puzzling Practice of Paying "Cash for Votes"
Murugesan, Anand; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2023
The expression "cash-for-votes" describes a form of vote buying in which candidates for office pay individuals in exchange for their votes. That practice undermines the functioning of democracy but is pervasive in many parts of the world, especially in the Global South. We discuss estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377478
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Terrorism and Voting: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Germany
Sabet, Navid; Liebald, Marius; Friebel, Guido - 2023
Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469496