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Redistributive politics and market efficiency: an experimental study
Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - 2009
We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269668
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Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - 2015
power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531713
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Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273182
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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency: An Experimental Study
Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527327
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Voter Reaction to Government Incompetence and Corruption Related to the 1999 Earthquakes in Turkey
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2015
Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307370
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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 political resource curse
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - 2010
politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269401
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Building political collusion: Evidence from procurement auctions
Coviello, Decio; Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2010
We investigate the relationship between the time politicians stay in office and the functioning of public procurement. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and all the procurement auctions they administered between 2000 and 2005. Identification is achieved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269756
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Politics in the Family: Nepotism and the Hiring Decisions of Italian Firms
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Manacorda, Marco - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479359
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When Criminality Begets Crime: The Role of Elected Politicians in India
Prakash, Nishith; Sahoo, Soham; Saraswat, Deepak; … - 2022
This paper estimates the causal impact of electing criminally accused politicians and their nature of criminality on crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close elections between candidates with and without criminal accusations to instrument the share of...
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