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Authority and incentives in organizations

Kräkel, Matthias - 2013

situation, decentralization is the optimal form of full delegation given that selfish behavior is more important than …

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Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies

Addison, John T. - 2015

This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...

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The Impact of Fiscal and Political Decentralization on Local Public Investments in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sjahrir, Bambang Suharnoko - 2014

We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …

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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times

Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Lucking, Brian; … - 2017

decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central …

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Delegation of Authority as an Optimal (In)complete Contract

Roider, Andreas - 2004

The present paper aims to contribute to the literature on the foundations of incomplete contracts by providing conditions under which simple delegation of authority is the solution to the complete-contracting problem of the parties. We consider a hold-up framework where both parties profit from...

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Good governance and good aid allocation

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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Fiscal decentralization and development: How crucial is local politics?

Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - 2010

Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …

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Local electoral incentives and decentralized program performance

de Janvry, Alain; Finan, Frederico S.; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - 2010

This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this federal program successfully reduced school dropout by 8...

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Decentralizing Development: Evidence from Government Splits

Dahis, Ricardo; Szerman, Christiane - 2024

Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp variations in the number of government units in...

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