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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...

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The separation and reunification of Germany : rethinking a natural experiment interpretation of the enduring effects of communism

Becker, Sascha O.; Mergele, Lukas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in East and West Germany were far from being randomly...

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Biases in fiscal multiplier estimates

Asatryan, Zareh; Havlik, Annika; Heinemann, Friedrich; … - 2019

The "true" size of fiscal multipliers is widely debated by economists and policy makers as large (small) multipliers provide arguments to expand (cut) public spending. Within a meta-analytical framework, we ask whether the large observed variance in multiplier estimates can be explained by the...

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Democratisation versus accountability - should the European Parliament be given more powers?

Schwager, Robert - 1999

This paper challenges the assertion that European politics would be closer to the citizens' preferences if decision power were transferred from the Council of Ministers to the European Parliament. On the one hand, citizens benefit from a greater transparency in the Parliamentś debates compared...

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The limits of transparency as a means of reducing corruption

Parra, Daniel; Muñoz-Herrera, Manuel; Palacio, Luis - 2019

We use a laboratory experiment to study the impact of transparency on reducing corruption in contexts where … embezzlement and bribery can co-occur. These contexts are closely related to grand corruption settings, where different types of … corruption occur and allow people in power to take advantage of their position. Transparency is expected to have a positive …

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You owe me

Malmendier, Ulrike; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2017

In business and politics, gifts are often aimed at influencing the recipient at the expense of third parties. In an experimental study, which removes informational and incentive confounds, subjects strongly respond to small gifts even though they understand the gift giver’s intention. Our...

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Exploring the link between corruption and innovation : the moderating role of institutional context and competitive pressure

Iorio, Roberto; Segnana, Maria Luigia - 2023

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Maximal fines and corruption : an experimental study on illegal waste disposal

Abatemarco, Antonio; Cascavilla, Alessandro; Dell' … - 2023

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Global Democracy: In the Beginning

Goodin, Robert E. - 2008

Talk about global democracy seems to be fixated on a Reform-Act model of democracy, with 'one person one vote for all affected by the decisions' as for example in a second popularly-apportioned chamber of UN. Politically, that seems wildly unrealistic. But remember that the Reform Acts came very...

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Review of literature on the productivity of public capital

Hamalainen, Pellervo - 2009

This paper summarizes previous results on the productivity of public capital. In recent literature, Aschauer's (1989) estimate for the productivity of public capital is often considered too high and the size of the effect is still open to debate. However, the positive effect of public capital on...

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