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Do Fiscal and Political Decentralization Raise Students' Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 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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Leader Networks and Transaction Costs : A Chinese Experiment in Interjurisdictional Contracting
Chau, Nancy H. - 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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001319
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Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy
Bennett, John - 2007
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778446
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Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation During the U.S. Welfare Reform
Bernecker, Andreas - 2015
reelection concerns may inhibit innovation in the public sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016381
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Happy Voters
Liberini, Federica - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046234
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Decentralization, Happiness and the Perception of Institutions
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126916
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Beyond Additionality : Are Innovation Subsidies Counterproductive?
Catozzella, Alessandra - 2014
two (input and output) dimensions of innovation into a unique efficiency perspective. To this aim, the impact of public … sample of firm-level data drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (CIS). A bivariate endogenous switching … the innovation subsidy; far from 'doing better' as a result of government intervention, supported firms appear to exhaust …
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Technological Innovation and Inclusive Growth in Germany
Naudé, Wim - 2017
Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades …, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth … technological innovation to raise labor productivity. This paper identifies three reasons why technological innovation has become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941243
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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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What Drives Innovation? Lessons from Covid-19 R&D
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaule, Patrick - 2021
To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …
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