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Corruption and Environmental Policy : An Alternative Perspective
Lapatinas, Thanassis - 2011
, one associated with high and another with low corruption. Corrupted politicians induce high levels of tax evasion … corruption equilibrium by choosing the appropriate tax rate and, through institutional changes, the rates of peculation …
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Networks of Many Public Goods with Non-Linear Best Replies
Rébillé, Yann - 2015
We model a bipartite network in which links connect agents with public goods. Agents play a voluntary contribution game in which they decide how much to contribute to each public good they are connected to. We show that the problem of finding a Nash equilibrium can be posed as a non-linear...
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Political Cycles : The Opposition Advantage
Gautier, Pascal; Soubeyran, Raphaël - 2005
We propose a two dimensional infinite horizon model of public consumption in which investments are decided by a winner-take-all election. Investments in the two public goods create a linkage across periods and parties have different specialities. We show that the incumbent party vote share...
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Impure Public Goods and Technological Interdependencies
Löschel, Andreas; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2008
Impure public goods represent an important group of goods. Almost every public good exerts not only effects which are public to all but also effects which are private to the producer of this good. What is often omitted in the analysis of impure public goods is the fact that - regularly - these...
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On the Private Provision of Public Goods on Networks
Allouch, Nizar - 2012
This paper analyzes the private provision of public goods where consumers interact within a fixed network structure and may benefit only from their direct neighbors’ provisions. We present a proof for existence and uniqueness of a Nash equilibrium with general best-reply functions. Our...
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On the Legitimacy of Coercion for the Financing of Public Goods
Bierbrauer, Felix J. - 2009
The literature on public goods has shown that efficient outcomes are impossible if participation constraints have to be respected. This paper addresses the question whether they should be imposed. It asks under what conditions efficiency considerations justify that individuals are forced to pay...
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Corruption, Exogenous Changes in Incentives and Deterrence
DiVita, Giuseppe - 2008
(the jurisdictional power). Basing our affirmations on the model, we can say that corruption may have declined in Italy …
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Analysis of Public Subsidies to the Solar Energy Sector : Corruption and the Role of Institutions
Moliterni, Fabio - 2017
This study investigates the connection between rent-seeking behaviour, corruption activity and quality of institutions … seems to have generated a growth of corruption activity, arisen from the opportunity of rent extraction. In particular … concentrated and administrative procedures are more complicated. To determine the causal effect of the subsidies on corruption, the …
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Corruption and the Curse : The Dictator's Choice
Sarr, Mare - 2013
corrupt economies in resource-rich countries. An empirical analysis of available corruption indices suggests that instability …-led looting provides a more fundamental explanation of perceived corruption than do various social and cultural indicators or the …
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The Impact of Protest Responses in Choice Experiments
Barrio, Melina - 2010
Not much attention has been given to protest responses in choice experiments (CE). Using follow-up statements, we are able to identify protest responses and compute welfare estimates with and without the inclusion of such protest responses. We conclude that protest responses are fairly common in...
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