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Appointed public officials and local favoritism : evidence from the German States
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2017
We study the local favoritism of appointed German state ministers. Matching hand-collected data on ministers' place of residence to a sample of more than 8,000 west German municipalities during the period 1994-2013, we find that the home municipality of a state minister experiences higher...
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The economics of politics : patronage and political selection in Italy
Quaresima, Federico; Fiorillo, Fabio - 2016
This article investigates the patronage phenomenon in the italian, so called, Second Republic. In particular, the …, where the interests of political parties and districts may diverge, the formers would need patronage resource to assure … parliamentarians' loyalty does play a role in patronage appointments as well as the electoral result in the next electoral competition. …
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Whither public interest : the case of Greece's public finances
Moutos, Thomas; Tsitsikas, Christos - 2010
During the last three decades there has been an almost continuous undermining of the public interest by private interests operating either outside or inside Greek public administration. The result of this infiltration has been a gradual loss of bureaucratic autonomy to pursue the public...
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The economics of politically connected firms
Choi, Jay Pil (contributor); Thum, Marcel (contributor) - 2007
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Political parties and network formation
Miettinen, Topi (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006
We argue that anticorruption laws may provide an efficiency rationale for why political parties should meddle in the distribution of political nominations and government contracts. Anticorruption laws forbid trade in spoils that politicians distribute. However, citizens may pay for gaining...
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Persistence of politicians and firms' innovation
Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Prarolo, … - 2011
We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation activity of firms. We use 12,000 firm-level observations from three waves of the Italian Observatory over Small and Medium Enterprises, and introduce a measure of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009010055
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Supermajorities and political rent extraction
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015
Models of political competition portray political candidates as seeking the support of the median voter to win elections by majority voting. In practice, political candidates seek supermajorities rather than majorities based on support of the median voter. We study the political benefits from...
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Just hire your spouse! : evidence from a political scandal in Bavaria
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014
We investigate a case of political favoritism. Some members of the Bavarian parliament hired relatives as office employees who were paid using taxpayers' money. We examine whether being involved in the scandal influenced re-election prospects and voter turnout. The results do not show that being...
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Ethnic favoritism : an axiom of politics?
De Luca, Giacomo; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - 2015
We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the political leader's ethnic group. We construct a panel dataset of 2,022 ethnographic regions from 139 countries with annual observations from 1992 to 2012, and use nighttime...
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Political connections, state ownership and productivity in China
Harris, Richard I. D.; Hashimzade, Nigar; Ding, Sai - 2016
Subordination of business to political influence has remains pervasive in China. We construct a Schumpeterian-type model of growth with managerial time allocation between productive activities and building up political connections. The model predicts the impact of different patterns of state...
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