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Intergovernmental Grants and Bureaucratic Power
Dahlberg, Matz - 2008
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...
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Bureaucratic Corruption and Profit Tax Evasion
Goerke, Laszlo - 2006
Firms may evade taxes on profits and can also avoid fulfilling legal restrictions on production activities by bribing bureaucrats. It is shown that the existence of tax evasion does not affect corruption activities at the firm level, while the budgetary repercussions of tax evasion induce less...
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Contracts Offered by Bureaucrats
Khalil, Fahad - 2018
We examine the power of incentives in bureaucracies by studying contracts offered by a bureaucrat to her agent. The bureaucrat operates under a fixed budget, optimally chosen by a funding authority, and she can engage in policy drift, which we define as inversely related to her intrinsic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938445
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One Size Fits All? Decentralization, Corruption, and the Monitoring of Bureaucrats
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2021
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 depends on the effectiveness of monitoring...
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Compliance Costs, Corruption and the Differentiation of Bureaucratic Services
Seidel, André - 2016
How to fight petty day-to-day corruption is a question often debated by politicians, by the public and in the economic literature. Early studies have noted that a simple and well-known way to fight day-to-day corruption is to create competition among corrupt officials. This paper shows that even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999776
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Political Accountability and Real Authority of Government Bureaucracy
Dodlova, Marina - CESifo - 2013
bureaucracy rather than to an autocratic leader. We combine the Aghion-Tirole definition of formal and real authority with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010703422
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Petty Corruption and Citizen Reports
Angelucci, Charles - 2017
To enforce regulations, governments often delegate power to public officials. However, officials may have incentives to abuse their discretionary power and engage in bribery or extortion. Efforts to monitor and curb such abuses have inspired interest in using new communication technologies to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970762
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The Interrelationship between Formal and Informal Delcentralization and its Impact on Sub-Central Governance Performance: The Case of Vietnam
Vu, Thanh Thuy; Zouikri, Messaoud; Deffains, Bruno - CESifo - 2012
Formal and informal institutions are often viewed as complements or substitutes in empirical and theoretical works. However, no evidence of complementarities or substitutes is found in our empirical analysis of the interrelation between formal and informal decentralization across 64 provinces of...
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The Interrelationship between Formal and Informal Decentralization and its Impact on Sub-Central Governance Performance : The Case of Vietnam
Vu, Thanh Thuy - 2012
Formal and informal institutions are often viewed as complements or substitutes in empirical and theoretical works. However, no evidence of complementarities or substitutes is found in our empirical analysis of the interrelation between formal and informal decentralization across 64 provinces of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111480
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The Long-Run Evolution of Infrastructure Services
Goldsmith, Hugh - 2014
This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and … positive feedback between early capital market development and investment in infrastructure innovations that lowered system …-wide transaction costs has been a critical factor in sustaining growth since 1800. The paper sets out a model of infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043210