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The words that keep people apart : official language, accountability and fiscal capacity

Baronchelli, Adelaide; Foresta, Alessandra; Ricciuti, … - 2020

This paper empirically evaluates the impact of accountability on fiscal capacity. It adopts an instrumental variable … reliable and is negatively correlated with our measure of accountability in line with the hypothesis. The results in the second …

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Fact-checking politicians

Mattozzi, Andrea; Nocito, Samuel; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2022

We investigate the reaction of Italian Members of Parliament to a rigorous fact-checking of their public statements. Our research design relies on a novel randomized field experiment in collaboration with the leading Italian fact-checking company. Our results show that politicians are responsive...

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"You need to have this information!": using videos to increase demand for accountability on public revenue management

Brunnschweiler, Christa N.; Edjekumhene, Ishmael; … - 2023

How can citizens be motivated to demand accountability in the management of public revenues? We carry out a video … a politician and civil society leader on attitudes and demand for accountability in the management of petroleum revenues … the way revenues are handled and spent, and the intention to demand more accountability. The encouragement messages have …

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State ownership and control in the Czech Republic

Kočenda, Evžen; Hanousek, Jan - 2009

We analyze the extent of the integrated control of the state over privatized firms during the post-privatization decade (1995-2005) in the Czech Republic. During this period the integrated control potential of the state resembled a corporate pyramid. While pyramidal control was not fully...

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The economics of politically connected firms

Choi, Jay Pil (contributor); Thum, Marcel (contributor) - 2007

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Revisiting the OLI paradigm : the institutions, the state, and China's OFDI

Liang, Hao; Ren, Bing; Zhu, Haikun - 2011

We propose a modified theoretical framework based on John Dunning's classical OLI paradigm in the international business literature to analyze Chinese firms' fast-growing and aggressive outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). In particular, from an institutional perspective, we suggest a...

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Public health care with waiting time : the role of supplementary private health care

Hoel, Michael; Sæther, Erik Magnus - 2001

We consider an economy where most of the health care is publicly provided,and where there is waiting time for several types of treatments. Privatehealth care without waiting time is an option for the patients in the publichealth queue. We show that although patients with low waiting costs...

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Assessing the efficiency of an insurance provider : a measurement error approach

Jametti, Mario; Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in Switzerland. The most commonly used measure for this kind of exercise is the Claims / Premium ratio. We argue that this measure may give strongly biased results. We develop a simple...

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Privatisation and public ownership in Finland

Willner, Johan - 2003

Finland s state-enterprise sector has been larger than in most countries and included several manufacturing companies. These were usually established because of a scarcity of private venture capital, with a mission to contribute to industrialisation. Some companies have now been privatised in a...

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Does ownership affect the impact of taxes on firm behavior? : evidence from China

Fuest, Clemens; Liu, Li - 2015

Does ownership affect the way firms react to corporate taxation? This paper exploits key features of recent corporate tax reforms in China to shed light on the differential impact of taxation on firms under different ownership regimes including private, collectively owned and state owned...

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