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Kundu, Tapas; Nilssen, Tore - 2017

We develop a model to discuss a government's incentives to delegate to bureaucrats the regulation of an industry. The …-based regulation policy requires the government to make use of a bureaucracy; this has a bureaucratic cost, as the bureaucracy diverts … implications for when and how a government should delegate its regulation of industry. We find that bureaucratic discretion reduces …

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A look upstream : electricity market restructuring, risk, procurement contracts and efficiency

Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian; Lazarova, Emiliya A. - 2014 - This version: November 25, 2014

This paper analyzes theoretically and empirically how upstream markets are affected by deregulation downstream. Deregulation tends to increase the level of uncertainty in the upstream market. Our theoretical analysis predicts that deregulated firms respond to this increase in uncertainty by...

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Internal versus institutional barriers to gender equality : evidence from British politics

Kumar, Noor; Lee, Uyseok; Lowe, Matt; Ogunnote, Olaitan - 2024

Weekly lotteries determine which politicians ask the UK Prime Minister a question in front of a male-dominated, packed, and noisy chamber. Women are 12% less likely to submit questions than same-cohort men, and this gap does not close with lottery-induced experience asking a question, or with...

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Corruption under austerity

Daniele, Gianmarco; Giommoni, Tommaso - 2021

We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the extension of one such policy, the Domestic Stability Pact (DSP), to small Italian municipalities. The DSP led to a decrease in both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per...

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What are the priorities of bureaucrats? : evidence from conjoint experiments with procurement officials

Tukiainen, Janne; Blesse, Sebastian; Bohne, Albrecht; … - 2023 - This version: December 6, 2022

While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit preferences of 900+ real-world public procurement officials in Finland and Germany. This is an important pursuit as they report having sizeable discretion and minimal extrinsic...

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The increasing cost of buying American

Bombardini, Matilde; Gonzalez Lira, Andres; Li, Bingjing; … - 2024

The latest resurgence in the U.S. of policies aimed at reducing imports and bolstering domestic production has included the expansion of Buy American provisions. While some of these are new and untested, in this paper we evaluate long-standing procurement limitations on the purchase of foreign...

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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?

Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015 - Date: October 26, 2015

This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...

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Auctions and corruption

Lengwiler, Yvan; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2000

In many auctions, the auctioneer is an agent of the seller. This delegation invites corruption. In this paper we propose a model of corruption, examine how corruption affects the auction game, how the anticipation of corruption affects bidding, and how it altogether changes the revenue ranking...

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Bureaucrats and public procurement

Bös, Dieter - 2001

This paper deals with a Niskanen type of public-procurement agency. It is shown that the procurement game should be separated into an investment game and a project game, the first game to be played before nature determines the actual real-izations of benefit and costs of the project, the second...

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Probabilistic procurement auctions

Giebe, Thomas; Schweinzer, Paul - 2013

We analyse procurement auctions in which sellers are distinguished on the basis of the ratios of quality per unit of money that they offer. Sellers are privately informed on the offered quality of the technology or good. We assume that the procurer cannot perfectly identify the best offer. Thus,...

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