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Contests among bureaucrats
Bös, Dieter - 2002
This paper deals with double lobbying: several bureaucrats participate in joint lobbying to get a high total departmental budget, but they also engage in antagonistic lobbying to reap as high a share of the total budget as possible. The antagonistic lobbying constitutes a contest among the...
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A model of strategic delegation in contests between groups
Brandauer, Stefan (contributor);  … - 2006
We analyze a contest between two groups where group members have differing valuations for the contested rent. Generically the pivotal group member with the median valuation of the rent will not act himself but will want to send a group member that has preferences different to her own into the...
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Technological determinants of the group-size paradox
Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2011
The present paper analyzes situations in which groups compete for rents. A major result in the literature has been that there are both cases where larger groups have advantages and cases where they have disadvantages. The paper provides two intuitive criteria which for groups with homogenous...
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Money talks to autocrats, bullets whistle to democrats : political influence under different regimes
Choon, Thea How; Marcolongo, Giovanna; Pinotti, Paolo - 2024
dynamics of bribes and violence around elections in democracies and autocracies using a novel measure of corruption based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015057721
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Individual behavior and collective action : the path to Iceland's financial collapse
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Gylfi Zoega - 2019
this regard. The external debt of Greece, Iceland, Ireland, and Spain increased exponentially, in Iceland at a rate higher …, a failure due, at least in Iceland, to a combination of mistakes, incompetence and what can only be called corruption …
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Insecure property rights and the missing middle
Grigoryan, Aram; Polborn, Mattias - 2018
We analyze a theoretical model in which entrepreneurs' property rights are threatened by "raiders" who can challenge them to a contest for control of their firms. Entrepreneurs have heterogeneous productivity, and decide how much capital to invest before raiders decide whom to attack. In...
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The democratization of rent seeking in Greece
Moutos, Thomas; Pechlibanos, Lampros - 2013
We describe the evolution of the power struggle in Greece among key economic and political stakeholders, who have tried …
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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 …
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Compliance costs, corruption and the differentiation of bureaucratic services
Seidel, André - 2015 - This version: 12.17.2015
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 … in a way that eliminates corruption. This is due to a tradeoff between corruption and compliance costs. More …
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Budget institutions and government effectiveness
Dahan, Momi; Strawczynski, Michel - 2016
Do budget institutions play a role in explaining why government effectiveness is higher in some advanced countries than in others? Employing an original panel dataset that spans four different years (1991, 2003, 2007 and 2012) we find that budget centralization has a negative and significant...
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