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Bureaucratic competence and procurement outcomes
Decarolis, Francesco; Giuffrida, Leonardo; Iossa, … - 2019
To what extent does a more competent public bureaucracy contribute to better economic outcomes? We address this question in the context of the US federal procurement of services and works, by combining contract-level data on procurement performance and bureau-level data on competence and...
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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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Dynamic capabilities of the public sector : towards a new synthesis
Kattel, Rainer - 2022
(UK's Government Digital Service, Sweden's Vinnova and the city of Barcelona), the paper discusses the origins and …
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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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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
educational inequality or aversion against government interventions. Support for compulsory preschool is the one policy with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905178
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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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The long-term costs of government surveillance : insights from stasi spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019 - This version: August 2019
We investigate the long-run effects of government surveillance on civic capital and economic performance, studying the …-reunification effect of government surveillance. We find that a higher spying density led to persistently lower levels of interpersonal and … institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We also find substantial and long-lasting economic effects of Stasi surveillance …
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Democracy and the quality of economic institutions : theory and evidence
Krieger, Tommy - 2022
We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342090
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The political economy of higher education finance : how information and design affect public preferences for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019
Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033428
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The political economy of negotiating international carbon markets
Arvaniti, Maria; Habla, Wolfgang - 2020 - This version: April 2020
International carbon markets are frequently propagated as an efficient instrument for reducing CO2 emissions. We argue that such markets, despite their desirable efficiency properties, might not be in the best interest of governments who are guided by strategic considerations in negotiations. We...
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