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Socially-Tolerable Discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status, academic performance, health status, volume of market transactions, religion, sexual orientation, etc. However, these forms of discrimination are not equally tolerable. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619655
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The Welfare Costs of Rent-Seeking: A Methodologically Individualist & Subjectivist Revision
Makovi, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
or inefficient for society. Rent-seeking is inefficient because it reduces societal welfare. But according to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011234836
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Let's make the tax system more lovable
Paunić, Alida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Making the taxes acceptable to large number of people by allocating their obligation to the chosen project is the main subject of this paper. In this way a greater objectivity, transparency and local goals are set in according to the preferences of the tax contributors. State Investment office...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260179
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Corruption and the Composition of Public Expenditures: Evidence from OECD Countries
Hessami, Zohal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper analyzes how corruption affects the composition of public expenditures. First, a two-stage rent …-seeking model with endogenous rent-setting is derived that captures both "political corruption" and "bureaucratic corruption". The … levels of corruption. The significance of these distortions is robust to a variety of specifications such as fixed effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684881
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Education, Rent-seeking and the Curse of Natural Resources.
Wadho, Waqar Ahmed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Empirical evidence suggests that natural resources breed corruption and reduce educational attainments, dampening … either through human capital or corruption. In this paper, we argue that education and corruption are jointly determined and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109055
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Economy and power to tax
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper aims to describe the evolution part of the economy and power to tax in Colombia. It also explains the failure of the government and the problems that have expanded public sector expenditures. Furthermore, we identify the aspects of political economy have influenced the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652920
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The constitution of economic growth: Testing the prosperity effects of a Madisonian model on a panel of countries 1980‐2000
Justesen, Mogens K.; Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Political scientists and economists increasingly agree that institutions may influence economic growth, but there is little general agreement on what institutions tend to produce what consequences. We apply public choice insights for a theoretical analysis that may be termed “Madisonian”:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421987
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It’s the weather, stupid! Individual participation in collective May Day demonstrations
Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We investigate the possible explanations of variations in aggregate levels of participation in large-scale political demonstrations. A simple public choice inspired model is applied to data derived from the annual May Day demonstrations of the Danish labour movement and socialist parties taking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784949
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Law, finance, economic growth and welfare: why does legal origin matter?
Simplice A., Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper proposes and empirically validates four theories of why legal origin influences growth and welfare through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323648
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Corruption as a response to regulation
Noel D., Johnson; William, Ruger; Jason, Sorens; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Previous research has found a negative effect of corruption on growth in the United States. However, some theory … suggests corruption might have a positive impact in places with dysfunctional political institutions. This paper investigates … whether the corruption-growth link is conditional on the extent of government involvement across U.S. states. Even though no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650661