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Civic engagement as a constraint on corruption

Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G.; Tabero, Katy; Tyran, … - 2024

Corruption is the great disease of government. It undermines the efficiency of the public sector in many countries … around the world. We experimentally study civic engagement (CE) as a constraint on corruption when incentives are stacked … against providing CE. We show that CE is powerful in curbing corruption when citizens can encourage each other to provide CE …

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Public goods provision with rent-extracting administrators

Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Grimm, Veronika; … - 2017

This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...

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The role of government and trust in the market economy

König, Nadja; Schuknecht, Ludger - 2018

This paper studies the role of governments and its link to trust. We argue that the public's trust strongly depends on governments delivering on their core tasks in a market economy. In some economies, a neglect of core tasks can be observed and there seems to be some erosion, notably in terms...

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The impact of government size on corruption : a meta-regression analysis

Bonanno, Graziella; Errico, Lucia; Fiorino, Nadia; … - 2024

We perform a Meta-Regression Analysis (MRA) of the literature on government size and corruption, examining 450 …-sectional data. Moreover, the type of indicator used to measure corruption has a significant impact on the sign of the relationship … significant results, whereas we find a positive relationship between the countries' corruption index and the effect size. …

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Delays in public goods

Chatterjee, Santanu; Posch, Olaf; Wesselbaum, Dennis - 2017

In this paper, we analyze the consequences of delays and cost overruns typically associated with the provision of public infrastructure in the context of a growing economy. Our results indicate that uncertainty about the arrival of public capital can more than offset its positive spillovers for...

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Shadow economies around the world : new results for 158 countries over 1991-2015

Medina, Leandro; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017 - Revised version

Using the MIMIC method, this paper is a first attempt to estimate the size of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. In addition to performing a variety of robustness tests, this paper explicitly addresses endogeneity concerns to the use of GDP as cause and...

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Volatility and resilience of democratic public-good provision

Gersbach, Hans; Pitsuwan, Fikri; Bolgè, Giovanni Valvassori - 2024

We examine democratic public-good provision with heterogeneous legislators. Decisions are taken by majority rule and an agenda-setter proposes a level of the public good, taxes, and subsidies. Members are heterogeneous with respect to their benefits from the public good. We find that, depending...

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National identity, public goods, and modern economic development

Skaperdas, Stergios; Testa, Patrick A. - 2023

Early in their formation, modern nation-states face internal conflicts that impede their economic development. This paper examines the role of national identity in helping modern states overcome such conflicts to provide public goods and grow. We develop a model in which the population can...

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Drivers of Covid-19 vaccinations : vaccine administration and delivery efficiency in the United States

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021

dimensions, is broadly consistent with the greasing effects of corruption. While the study uses data from a single nation that is …

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Maize and precolonial Africa

Cherniwchan, Jevan; Moreno Cruz, Juan - 2018

Columbus's arrival in the New World triggered an unprecedented movement of people and crops across the Atlantic Ocean. We study an overlooked part of this Columbian Exchange: the effects of New World crops in Africa. Specifically, we test the hypothesis that the introduction of maize increased...

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