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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tame bureaucracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317746
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Jobs, Crime, and Votes : A Short-Run Evaluation of the Refugee Crisis in Germany
Gehrsitz, Markus - 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/10012964998
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The Effect of Community Size on Electoral Preferences : Evidence from Post-Wwii Southern Germany
Fiorini, Luciana Costa - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822464
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The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior : Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment
Mir Djawadi, Behnud - 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/10013081828
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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda
Hunt, Jennifer - 2007
In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household consumption increases the bribery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777031
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Employer's Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
This paper presents a model in which promotion of employees within the internal firm hierarchy is determined by the individuals' allocation of time between promotion/rent-seeking and productive activity. We consider the effect of an increase in the employer's knowledge (information) regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096774
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Politicians' Outside Earnings and Political Competition
Becker, Johannes - 2008
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings. The main hypothesis is that the amount of time spent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768170
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Politicians, Governed vs. Non-Governed Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation
Epstein, Gil S. - 2014
Government intervention often gives rise to contests and the government can influence their outcome by choosing their type. We consider a contest with two interest groups: one that is governed by a central planner and one that is not. Rent dissipation is compared under two well-known contest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061935
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Electoral Accountability and Corruption in Local Governments : Evidence from Audit Reports
Ferraz, Claudio - 2007
Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democratic institutions, restricts public … determines corruption is limited. This paper uses a novel dataset of political corruption in local governments, constructed from … reports of an anti-corruption program in Brazil, to test whether the possibility of re-election affects the level of rents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776584
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Exposing Corruption : Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?
Afridi, Farzana - 2016
accountability and reduce corruption. In this paper we show that electoral discipline may be ineffective in reducing corruption when … competition on corruption. We show that in equilibrium, corruption has a U-shaped relationship with electoral competition. If the … election is safe for the incumbent (low competition) or if it is extremely fragile (high competition) then corruption is higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978149