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Building political collusion: Evidence from procurement auctions
Coviello, Decio; Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2010
. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and all the procurement auctions they … importantly, the winning rebate. Interestingly, we also find that the probability that the same firm is awarded more auctions, or … of favoritism in repeated procurement auctions, where time reveals collusive types, thus increasing the value of illegal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269756
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Building Political Collusion: Evidence from Procurement Auctions
Coviello, Decio; Gagliarducci, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and all the procurement auctions they … importantly, the winning rebate. Interestingly, we also find that the probability that the same firm is awarded more auctions, or … of favoritism in repeated procurement auctions, where time reveals collusive types, thus increasing the value of illegal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506079
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Public Procurement and Innovation for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Naudé, Wim; Dimitri, Nicola - 2021
The possible negative consequences of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have given rise to calls for public policy to ensure that it is safe, and to prevent improper use and misuse. Human-centered AI (HCAI) draws on ethical principles and puts forth actionable guidelines in this regard. So far...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497922
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267660
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The Anti-Corruption Campaign and the Inter-Generational Transmission of Working in Bureaucracy: Evidence from China
Chen, Shuai; Ge, Erqi - 2022
There is a clear and persistent inequality of bureaucratic employment between individuals with a bureaucrat parent and those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for counter-corruption affect inequality and potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426418
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700927
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Can Job Competition Prevent Hold-Ups?
Jansen, Marcel - 2004
We consider an economy in which firms need to invest in capital before they can advertise a job, while applicants may have to compete for jobs. Our aim is to investigate how this competition affects the investment decisions of firms. Our first result shows that the economy always generates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261761
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Can Job Competition Prevent Hold-Ups?
Jansen, Marcel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We consider an economy in which firms need to invest in capital before they can advertise a job, while applicants may have to compete for jobs. Our aim is to investigate how this competition affects the investment decisions of firms. Our first result shows that the economy always generates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703500
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The Race for an Artificial General Intelligence: Implications for Public Policy
Naudé, Wim; Dimitri, Nicola - 2018
An arms race for an artificial general intelligence (AGI) would be detrimental for and even pose an existential threat to humanity if it results in an unfriendly AGI. In this paper an all-pay contest model is developed to derive implications for public policy to avoid such an outcome. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931702
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To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2005
We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262660