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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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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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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...

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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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Power, scrutiny, and congressmen's favoritism for friends' firms

Do, Quoc-Anh; Lee, Yen Teik; Nguyen, Bang Dang; Nguyen, … - 2023

Does higher office always lead to more favoritism? We argue that firms may lose their benefit from a connected politicians ascent to higher office, if it entails stricter scrutiny that may reduce favoritism. Around close Congress elections, we find RDD-based evidence of this adverse effect that...

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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 … bureaucracy are the most likely reasons behind our findings. -- state ownership ; control ; corporate performance ; privatization …

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Arm's length provision of public services

Bennedsen, Morten (contributor); … - 2007

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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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