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Why is fiscal policy often procyclical?
Alesina, Alberto (contributor);  … - 2005
Many countries, especially developing ones, follow procyclical fiscal policies, namely spending goes up (taxes go down) in booms and spending goes down (taxes go up) in recessions. We provide an explanation for this suboptimal fiscal policy based upon political distortions and incentives for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003201852
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Petty corruption and citizen feedback
Angelucci, Charles; Russo, Antonio - 2015
Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343756
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966676
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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?
Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377261
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When is a state predatory?
Robinson, James A. - 1999
I argue that whether or not a state is predatory hinges on the relationship between development and the distribution of political power in society. Development is typically inconsistent with the preservation of the political status quo and this gives those who initially hold political power an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781676
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The political economy of corruption and the role of financial institutions : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004
Boerner, Kira; Hainz, Christa - 2004
In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even if they have democratic … high corruption levels. Our model is based on the fact that corrupt offcials have to pay an entry fee to get lucrative … positions. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451286
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What determines fiscal policy? : evidence from German states
Berger, Helge (contributor); Holler, Anika (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499703
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Complex ballot propositions, individual voting behavior, and status quo bias
Hessami, Zohal; Resnjanskij, Sven - 2018
One concern about direct democracy is that citizens may not be sufficiently competent to decide about complex policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011922007
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Media capture in a democracy : the role of wealth concentration
Corneo, Giacomo (contributor) - 2005
Since objective news coverage is vital to democracy, captured media can seriously distort collective decisions. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002578084
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Why does environmental policy in representative democracies tend to be inadequate? : a preliminary public choice analysis
Kollmann, Andrea; Schneider, Friedrich - 2010
. To identify the reasons for this insufficient implementation in the past decade the Public Choice theory is used. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699051