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Political institutions and government spending behavior : theory and evidence from Iran
Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; … - 2015 - This version: 16.06.2015
This study examines how the quality of political institutions affects the distribution of the government budget in Iran. We first introduce a mechanism through which democracy can shift government expenditure from national defense (military) to productivity-enhancing public spending (e.g.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342383
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Information and preferences for public spending : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Schwerdt, Guido; Werner, Katharina; … - 2016
The electorates' lack of information about the extent of public spending may cause misalignments between voters' preferences and the size of government. We devise a series of representative survey experiments in Germany that randomly provide treatment groups with information on current spending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482935
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Are the elderly a threat to educational expenditures?
Cattaneo, M. Alejandra (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003598836
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The economic effects of constitutions : replicating - and extending - Persson and Tabellini
Blume, Lorenz; Müller, Jens; Voigt, Stefan; Wolf, Carsten - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498675
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Individual behavior and collective action : the path to Iceland's financial collapse
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Gylfi Zoega - 2019
, a failure due, at least in Iceland, to a combination of mistakes, incompetence and what can only be called corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110219
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897580
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Yardstick competition, corruption, and electoral incentives
Long, Ngo Van (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper investigates the relationship between electoral incentives, institutions and corruption. We assume that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730296
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Resource rents, democracy and corruption : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Arezki, Rabah; Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2011
We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is … suggest that the mechanisms through which resource rents affect corruption cannot be separated from political systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301201
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External sovereign debt in a monetary union : bailouts and the role of corruption
Achury, Carolina; Koulovatianos, Christos; Tsoukalas, … - 2011
contrary, under corruption, we show that bailouts are ineffective unless rent-seeking groups are eradicated. -- sovereign debt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240852
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Bribing in team contests
Doğan, Serhat; Karagözoğlu, Emin; Keskin, Kerim; … - 2020
We study bribing in a sequential team contest with multiple pairwise battles. We allow for asymmetries in winning prizes and marginal costs of effort; and we characterize the conditions under which (i) a player in a team is offered a bribe by the owner of the other team and (ii) she accepts the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162502