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Exposing Corruption: Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Solan, Eilon - 2016
In developing countries with weak institutions, there is implicitly a large reliance on elections to instill norms of accountability and reduce corruption. In this paper we show that electoral discipline may be ineffective in reducing corruption when political competition is too high or too low....
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Electoral goals and center-state transfers: a theoretical model and empirical evidence from India
Arulampalam, Wiji; Dasgupta, Sugato; Dhillon, Amrita; … - 2008
We construct a model of redistributive politics where the central government is opportunistic and uses its discretion to make transfers to state governments on the basis of political considerations. These considerations are the alignment between the incumbent parties at the central and state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268901
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Efficiency Consequences of Affirmative Action in Politics: Evidence from India
Das, Sabyasachi; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Saroy, Rajas - 2017
We examine how overall delivery of public goods (i.e., efficiency) is affected by affirmative action in elections, i.e., restricting candidate entry in elections to one population group. We argue that when group identities are salient, such restrictions on candidate entry need not necessarily...
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Fake News
Grunewald, Andreas; Kräkel, Matthias - 2017
In the last decade, social media and the Internet have amplified the possibility to spread false information, a.k.a. fake news, which has become a serious threat to the credibility of politicians, organizations, and other decision makers. This paper proposes a framework for investigating the...
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Choosing a Partner for Social Exchange: Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness
Fehrler, Sebastian; Przepiorka, Wojtek - 2016
People benefit from being perceived as trustworthy. Examples include sellers trying to attract buyers, or candidates in elections trying to attract voters. In a laboratory experiment using exchange games, in which the trustor can choose the trustee, we study whether trustees can signal their...
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Out of Communal Land: Clientelism through Delegation of Agricultural Tenancy Contracts
Kurosaki, Takashi; Paul, Saumik; Witoelar, Firman - 2021
Do local institutions influence the nature of political clientelist exchange? We find a positive answer in the context of a village institution prevalent in Java since the Dutch colonial rule, where democratically elected village heads receive usufruct rights over a piece of communal village...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597409
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Electoral Goals and Center-State Transfers: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Evidence from India
Arulampalam, Wiji; Dasgupta, Sugato; Dhillon, Amrita; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We construct a model of redistributive politics where the central government is opportunistic and uses its discretion to make transfers to state governments on the basis of political considerations. These considerations are the alignment between the incumbent parties at the central and state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703789
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Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game
Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2014
We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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An Experimental Test of a Search Model under Ambiguity
Asano, Takao; Okudaira, Hiroko; Sasaki, Masaru - 2014
This paper's objective is to design a laboratory experiment to explore the effect of ambiguity on a subject's search … faced with ambiguity over wage distributions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333340
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How Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Tournaments Affect Gender Differences in Competitive Behavior
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
ambiguity induces a significant increase in the performance of men who choose to compete, while we observe no change for women …. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to … men winning the tournament significantly more often than women under uncertainty and ambiguity. These findings suggest …
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