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Tenure in office and public procurement
Coviello, Decio; Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011629597
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Management and performance in the public sector : evidence from german municipalities
Englmaier, Florian; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; … - 2023
We study management practices and performance in a representative sample of German municipalities, which provide the bulk of direct administrative services for citizens and firms in Germany. Surveyed municipalities differ substantially in their use of structured management practices, and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014479190
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Transparency and policy competition : experimental evidence from German citizens and politicians
Blesse, Sebastian; Lergetporer, Philipp; Nover, Justus; … - 2023
educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014232734
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Transparency and policy competition : experimental evidence from german citizens and politicians
Blesse, Sebastian; Lergetporer, Philipp; Nover, Justus; … - 2023
educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014478411
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Politicians' social welfare criteria - an experiment with German legislators
Ambuehl, Sandro; Blesse, Sebastian; Doerrenberg, Philipp; … - 2023
resolving preference conflicts across individuals, politicians place substantially more importance on least-favored than on most …” which insists that choices merit intervention only if the lure of immediacy may bias intertemporal choice. Politicians’ and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014305744
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The fiscal consequences of immigration : a study of local governments' expenditures
Virén, Matti E. E. - 2022
In this paper we examine how Finnish municipalities' expenditures depend on the share of citizens with foreign background out of the total population. Empirical analyses make use of Finnish panel data from 295 municipalities and 202 migrant nationalities for the period 1987- 2018. It turns out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013256706
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Signalling, incumbency advantage, and optimal reelection rules
Caselli, Francesco; Cunningham, Tom; Morelli, Massimo; … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009553624
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Politics in the family : nepotism and the hiring decisions of Italian firms
Manacorda, Marco; Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475223
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Personality traits and cognitive ability in political selection
Jokela, Markus; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Tukiainen, Janne; … - 2023 - February 2023 (first version July 2022, second version August 2022)
electoral candidates and election of politicians. Using unique data that combine population registers and election statistics … dimensions of non-cognitive ability. Second, elected politicians possess more desirable traits than nonelected candidates. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013280142
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Historic sex-ratio imbalances predict female participation in the market for politicians
Grant, Iris; Kesternich, Iris; Steckenleiter, Carina; … - 2018
for politicians. We exploit variation in sex ratios - the number of men divided by the number of women in a region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905227