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Provincial and Local Governments in China : Fiscal Institutions and Government Behavior

Gordon, Roger H. - 2011

What are the incentives faced by local officials in China? Without democratic institutions, there is no mechanism for local residents to exercise "voice". Given the hukou registration system, local residents have little opportunity to threaten "exit" if they are unhappy with local taxes and...

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The Political Economy of Government Revenues in Post-Conflict Resource-Rich Africa : Liberia and Sierra Leone

Davies, Victor A. B. - 2012

This paper examines the post-war strategies of Liberia and Sierra Leone to generate revenues from their natural resources. We document the challenges faced by the government of the two countries, contrasting measures taken to address these challenges as well as the outcomes. We complement the...

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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption : Evidence from Us States

Campante, Filipe R. - 2013

We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that this isolation reduces accountability, and in contrast with the alternative hypothesis that it might forestall political capture. We then provide direct...

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Liquidity and Governance

Back, Kerry - 2013

Is greater trading liquidity good or bad for corporate governance? We address this question both theoretically and … information concerns her own plans for taking an active role in governance. We show that an increase in the liquidity of the firm … governance. Empirical tests using three distinct sources of exogenous variation in liquidity confirm the negative relation …

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Advance Refundings of Municipal Bonds

Ang, Andrew - 2013

interest payments after the call date. We find that municipalities in states with poor governance generally destroy the most …

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Sharing a Government

Ventura, Jaume - 2019

This paper develops a simple theoretical framework to study a set of regions, each with its own regional government, who share a union or central government. These governments must decide whether to implement or discard a large number of projects that produce local benefits for the region that...

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Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa : Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

A fundamental problem for economic development is that most poor countries have 'weak state' which are incapable or … correlation between pre-colonial political centralization and modern public goods and development outcomes …

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Governance and the Effectiveness of Public Health Subsidies

Dizon-Ross, Rebecca - 2015

decrease child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. There is, however, widespread concern that poor governance and in particular …

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Policy and Governance of Science, Technology, and Innovation : Social Inclusion and Sustainable Development in Latin América

Ordoñez-Matamoros, Héctor Gonzalo (ed.); … - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.

1. Introduction: Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and Governance for Social Inclusion and Sustainable … Development in Latin America -- PART 1. INNOVATION POLICY -- 2. Toward a typology of public innovation. Eccentric, discrete, flat …. Innovation policies for an inclusive and sustainable development: Insights from Central America -- 5. Towards a Regional Policy …

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Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

Cohen, Lauren - 2010

This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In doing so, we show that...

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