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Electoral cycles in perceived corruption : international empirical evidence

Potrafke, Niklas - 2018

Perceived corruption in the public sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of … Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes around 100 democracies over the period 2012-2016, a sample for which the CPI is … than in other years, indicating that perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is …

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Corruption and economic growth : new empirical evidence

Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

The nexus between corruption and economic growth has been examined for a long time. Many empirical studies measured … corruption by the reversed Transparency International’s Perception of Corruption Index (CPI) and ignored that the CPI was not … 2012-2018 and re-examine the nexus between corruption and economic growth. The cumulative long-run effect of corruption on …

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Was bringt uns die große Koalition? : Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik

Kauder, Björn; Larin, Benjamin; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014

Deutschland wurde bereits zweimal, 1966-1969 und 2005-2009, von einer großen Koalition regiert. Deskriptive Zeitreihenanalysen wirtschaftspolitischer Kennzahlen zeigen nicht auf, dass es unter diesen großen Koalitionen signifikante Kurswechsel in der Wirtschaftspolitik gab. Qualitative...

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Just hire your spouse! : evidence from a political scandal in Bavaria

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014

We investigate a case of political favoritism. Some members of the Bavarian parliament hired relatives as office employees who were paid using taxpayers' money. The family scandal was a hot issue in the German media because of the upcoming state and federal elections. We examine whether being...

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Rewarding conservative politicians? : evidence from voting on same-sex marriage

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021

We examine whether voters rewarded conservative politicians who were voting in favor of same-sex marriage. Data is based on a roll-call vote in the German national parliament (Bundestag) in June 2017. This roll-call vote drastically influenced the public discourse about the social political...

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Evidence on the political principal-agent problem from voting on public finance for concert halls

Potrafke, Niklas - 2013

Principal-agent problems can arise when preferences of voters are not aligned with preferences of political representatives. Often the consequence of the political principalagent problem is political catering to special interests. In this paper I provide examples of principal-agent problems...

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Fiscal performance of minority governments : new empirical evidence for OECD countries

Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

I use new data on central and general governments for 23 OECD countries over the period 1960-2015 (unbalanced panel) to examine fiscal performance under minority governments. The results do not suggest that minority governments had higher fiscal deficits and public expenditure than majority...

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How to handle the fiscal crisis in Greece? : empirical evidence based on a survey of economic experts

Mosler, Martin; Potrafke, Niklas; Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2019

We asked economic experts polled by the CESifo World Economic Survey how to handle the fiscal crisis in Greece in the year 2015. The sample includes about 850 experts from 110 countries. We find systematic differences in experts' recommendations. Our results suggest that policy advice is related...

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The real estate transfer tax and government ideology : evidence from the German states

Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

Since 2007 the German state governments have been allowed by a constitutional reform to set real estate transfer tax rates. We exploit this reform and investigate whether government ideology predicts the levels and increases in the real estate transfer tax rates. The results show that leftwing...

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The urban-rural gap in health care infrastructure : does government ideology matter?

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2019

Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as health care facilities have substantial socioeconomic effects. Little is known, however, as to why publicly provided goods diverge among urban and rural regions. We exploit narrow parliamentary majorities in German states between 1950 and...

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