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Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2008

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? An empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …

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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication

Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2003

Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate matching function that has the standard properties but fails to be...

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Performance spillovers and social network in the workplace: evidence from rural and urban weavers in a Chinese textile firm

Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2008

We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...

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Labor mobility, social network effects, and innovative activity

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2011

We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...

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Public budget composition, fiscal (de)centralization and welfare

Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana; … - 2007

composition. Only when the differences are sufficiently large does full decentralization become the optimal regime. National … that fiscal decentralization increases capital accumulation. However, in terms of welfare this result can be reversed …

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The regional dimension of collective wage bargaining: the case of Belgium

Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Tojerow, Ilan - 2008

The potential failure of national industry agreements to take into account productivity levels of least productive regions has been considered as one of the causes of regional unemployment in European countries. Two solutions are generally proposed: the first, encouraged by the European...

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Spatial decentralization and program evaluation: Theory and an example from Indonesia

Pitt, Mark M.; Menon, Nidhiya - 2010

This paper proposes a novel instrumental variable method for program evaluation that only requires a single cross-section of data on the spatial intensity of programs and outcomes. The instruments are derived from a simple theoretical model of government decision-making in which governments are...

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The impact of local decentralization on economic growth: evidence from U.S. counties

Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009

We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our …. Our results suggest that local government decentralization matters differently for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan …

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Decentralization, happiness and the perception of institutions

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

,000 observations of individuals living in 29 European countries. Our results reveal that political and fiscal decentralization have a … positive and significant effect on individuals' overall happiness. Fiscal decentralization also exerts a significant effect on … effect of political decentralization on these variables is more limited. The results show that citizens seem to be happier …

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