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Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy

Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...

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Do fiscal and political decentralization raise students' performance? : a cross-country analysis

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Meix-Llop, Enric - 2012

The low quality of education is a persistent problem in many developed countries. Parallel to in the last decades exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries. Using micro data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) referred to 22...

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Altruism in society : evidence from a natural experiment involving commuters

Mujcic, Redzo; Frijters, Paul - 2011

We study social preferences in the form of altruism using data on 959 interactions between random commuters at selected traffic intersections in the city of Brisbane, Australia. By observing real decisions of individual commuters on whether to stop (give way) for others, we find evidence of (i)...

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Trial and error? : Reelection concerns and policy experimentation during the US welfare reform

Bernecker, Andreas; Boyer, Pierre C.; Gathmann, Christina - 2015

reelection concerns may inhibit innovation in the public sector. …

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Happy voters

Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - 2014

Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...

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Decentralization, happiness and the perception of institutions

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2011

This paper analyses whether the different powers and resources at the disposal of local and regional governments across Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses microdata from the four available waves of the...

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Leader networks and transaction costs : a Chinese experiment in interjurisdictional contracting

Chau, Nancy H.; Qin, Yu; Zhang, Weiwen - 2016

Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas, and investigate the role of leader networks on the boundary between jurisdictions that embrace trade versus autarky....

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Public employment and redistributive politics : evidence from Russia's regions

Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, … - 2000

Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country's 89 regions, and rates varied among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78 regions over 1992-1998 we...

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Opening up military innovation: causal effects of "bottom-up" reforms to U.S. defense research

Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021

the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …

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The rise and fall of German innovation

Naudé, Wim; Nagler, Paula - 2021

In this paper, we describe the historical co-evolution of innovation and economic growth in Germany since 1871. The … country's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century, through its innovation and entrepreneurial performance, is … nevertheless a period during which innovation went into relative decline. We document this decline and offer four broad …

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