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Does corruption erode trust in government? : evidence from a recent surge of local scandals in Spain
Solé-Ollé, Albert; Sorribas-Navarro, Pilar - 2014
use a novel dataset containing information on local corruption scandals reported in Spain during the period 1999 - 2009 …We examine whether a corruption scandal in which the incumbent is implicated undermines trust in local government. We … matching methods to improve the identification of the effect of corruption scandals on trust, comparing municipalities affected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375152
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Corruption in Russia : historic legacy and systemic nature
Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2018
This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty … towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789215
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The historical roots of corruption and economic development in Italy
Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2013
social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We … test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces, and address the possible endogeneity of corruption by applying an … IV model. We use three sets of historical instruments for corruption: 1) foreign dominations in 16th-17th century, 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009734834
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568824
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Ethnic fractionalization, governance and loan defaults in Africa
Andrianova, Svetlana; Baltagi, Badi H.; Demetriades, … - 2014
We present a theoretical model of moral hazard and adverse selection in an imperfectly competitive loans market that is suitable for application to Africa. The model allows for variation in both the level of contract enforcement (depending on the quality of governance) and the degree of market...
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The role of government and trust in the market economy
König, Nadja; Schuknecht, Ludger - 2018
This paper studies the role of governments and its link to trust. We argue that the public's trust strongly depends on governments delivering on their core tasks in a market economy. In some economies, a neglect of core tasks can be observed and there seems to be some erosion, notably in terms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825240
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On modes of economic governance
Dixit, Avinash K. - 2001
I consider transactions involving asymmetric prisoners dilemmas between pairs of players selected chosen from two large populations. Games are played repeatedly, but information about cheating is not adequate to sustain cooperation, and there is no official legal system of contract enforcement....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400856
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Politicians : be killed or survive
Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Torgler, Benno (contributor) - 2008
In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003791827
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Research governance in academia : are there alternatives to academic rankings?
Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take explicitly or implicitly agency theory as a theoretical basis. The emerging psychological economics opens a new perspective. As scholarly research is a mainly curiosity driven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887431
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Globalization and the (mis)governance of nations
Blouin, Arthur; Ghosal, Sayantan; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2012 - This vers.: December 2011
We analyze whether or not the globalization of capital, "disciplines" governments and improves governance. We demonstrate that globalization affects governance, by increasing a country's vulnerability to sudden capital flight. This increased threat of capital flight can discipline governments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488923