government." To restrain government manipulation, one has to turn to Constitutional Economics and increase the possibilities for …

government's competency to levy income, capital and turnover taxes to find out how the enfranchisement of women influences public … support for government spending. The first ballot took place shortly before the extension of suffrage to women in February … rates for the two propositions. Surprisingly, I find that approval for government spending is higher among the male …

Previous theoretical and empirical research has shown that policymakers have an incentive to centralize government …

government’s competency to levy income, capital and turnover taxes to find out how the enfranchisement of women influences public … support for government spending. The first ballot took place shortly before the extension of suffrage to women in February … rates for the two propositions. Surprisingly, I find that approval for government spending is higher among the male …

government”. To restrain government manipulation one has to turn to Constitutional Economics and increase the possibilities for …

the decentralization process in China in 1980-1990s, as well as the fact that government decentralization is generally … model to account for this. The idea is that decentralization serves as a commitment device to ensure that ex post chose …

Government or company decisions on whom to hire are mostly delegated to politicians, public sector officials or human … resources and procurement managers. Due to anti-corruption laws, agents cannot sell contracts or positions that they are …

We study the optimal duration of contracts in a principal-agent framework with both moral hazard and adverse selection …. Agents decide on a contract-specific and non-verifiable investment. Incentive compatibility requires that initial contracts …, which serve to screen the ability of newly hired agents, cannot be longer than continuation contracts, offered to successful …

Government or company decisions on whom to hire are mostly delegated to politicians, public sector officials or human … resources and procurement managers. Due to anti-corruption laws, agents cannot sell contracts or positions that they are …

We study the returns to political office using data from Finnish parliamentary elections in 1970-2007 and municipal … elections in 1996-2008. The discontinuity of electoral outcomes in individual candidate votes allows us to estimate the causal …