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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006
correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy …. -- public sector ; rents ; life satisfaction ; corruption ; judicial independence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278945
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Jobs, crime, and votes : a short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany
Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2017
Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses administrative data on refugee allocation and provides an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607354
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The effect of community size on electoral preferences: evidence from Post-WWII Southern Germany
Fiorini, Luciana C.; Jetter, Michael; Parmeter, … - 2020
Populous communities often prefer more government involvement than less populous communities, but does community size per se affect citizens' preferences for government? Endogeneity commonly prevents testing for causal effects because (i) people can select into communities while (ii) government...
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The impact of risk perception and risk attitudes on corrupt behavior : evidence from a petty corruption experiment
Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - 2013
particular be true for petty corruption where small amounts of bribes are involved and the detection rate is rather low. To … conducting a real effort task in every period. Independent of the treatments we already find high rates of corruption in very … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740342
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A model of dynamic conflict in ethnocracies
Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2015
We model an infinitely repeated Tullock contest, over the sharing of some given resource, between two ethnic groups. The resource is allocated by a composite state institution according to relative ethnic control; hence the ethnic groups contest the extent of institutional ethnic bias. The...
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On the escalation and de-escalation of conflict
Lacomba, Juan A.; Lagos, Francisco; Reuben, Ernesto; … - 2013
We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict behavior and repeated interaction on the allocation of effort between production and appropriation. Without repeated interaction, destruction of resources by defeated...
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The role of lawyer-legislators in shaping the law : evidence from voting behavior on tort reforms
Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
Attorneys elected to the US Congress and to US state legislatures are systematically less likely to vote in favor of tort reforms that restrict tort litigation, but more likely to support bills that extend tort law than legislators with a different professional background. This finding is based...
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A subscription vs. appropriation framework for natural resource conflicts
Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2020
We examine how cross-community cost or benefit spillovers, arising from the consumption of group-specific public goods, affect both inter-group conflicts over the appropriation of such goods and decentralized private provision for their production. Our model integrates production versus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295566
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Political networks across the globe
Commander, Simon; Poupakis, Stavros - 2020
Political networks are an important feature of the political and economic landscape of countries. Despite their ubiquity and significance, information on such networks has proven hard to collect due to a pervasive lack of transparency. However, with the advent of big data and artificial...
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The long-run earnings effects of winning a mayoral election
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo; … - 2023
We estimate the effect of winning a mayoral election on long-run licit earnings, which plays a key role in the selection of local political leaders. We use Italian administrative social security data from 1995 to 2017 and a sharp regression discontinuity design based on close elections. Over a...
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