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We apply an indirect evolutionary approach to players' perceived prize valuations in contests. Evolution in finite populations leads to preferences that overstate the prize's material value and induce overexpenditure. We establish an equivalence between the behavior evolutionarily stable...
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In this paper we study a multi-stage elimination contest with non-sunk bids: differently from existing literature, we realize that when players are budget-constrained, they do not regard past bids as strategically irrelevant in their decision of how much to bid in following stages. This happens...
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Traditional rational choice theories of voting state that, in a scenario with positive voting costs, people will vote only when they are pivotal. This hypothesis is contradicted by the frequent observation of relatively high rates of electoral turnout. Over the last few decades, several...
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A large body of empirical research suggests that welfare spending reduces crime. Contrary to this dominant finding, a few recent studies conclude that there is no relationship between several measures of welfare spending and serious crime. This paper contributes to the debate using data from the...
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We analyze the effectiveness of some commonly discussed anti--corruption reforms on political corruption, using a … corruption, and higher wages for elected politicians increase (or decrease) voters' welfare. We discuss how the asymmetric …
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government corruption while being positively impacted by both control of corruption and political stability. Other findings …
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In the last three decades Argentina tripled its crime rate boosting safety at the top of mayor concerns of Argentineans which leaves open the question about the behavior of incumbent governors of the 23 provinces about anti-crime measures in the proximity of elections. How do incumbent governors...
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This paper examines the relationship between corruption and infrastructure at both the country and regional level using … the measure of corruption in the macro data and the measures of transportation and electricity infrastructure. Countries … with more corruption tend to have worse infrastructure in the eyes of their firms. This link is shown to remain when one …
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suggests thaht corruption, which is likely to emerge in long term reciprocal relationships between public officials and …
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Drawing from the literature on the determinants of corruption, this article examines the relationship between … corruption and the nature of state of fragility. Robust empirical evidence shows a correlation between the level of corruption … neither flowing from state fragility to classical corruption nor to extreme corruption. S’enregistrant dans la littérature sur …
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