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Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness
Best, Michael - 2017
How important are bureaucrats for the productivity of the state? And to what extent do the tradeoffs between different policies depend on the implementing bureaucrats' effectiveness? Using data on 16million public procurement purchases in Russia during 2011–2016, we show that over 40 percent...
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Choosing a Dictator : Bureaucracy and Welfare in Less Developed Polities
Rauch, James E. - 2021
bureaucracy in place of political appointees as an important component of the institutional environment in which private … corruption of their subordinates as a byproduct of their efforts to implement their preferences using tax revenue. Within this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212898
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The Limits of Meritocracy : Screening Bureaucrats Under Imperfect Verifiability
Suárez Serrato, Juan Carlos - 2016
Does bureaucratic ability predict promotion in governments? We show that self-reported performance in enforcing the One Child Policy predicts mayoral promotion in China. However, misreporting handicaps screening—a non-manipulated performance measure does not predict promotion. We show that...
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Certification, Reputation and Entry : An Empirical Analysis
Hui, Xiang - 2018
Markets with asymmetric information will often employ third-party certification labels to distinguish between higher and lower quality transactions, yet little is known about the effects of certification policies on the evolution of markets. How does the stringency in quality certification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912526
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Anonymous Market and Group Ties in International Trade
Casella, Alessandra; Rauch, James E. - 2021
When trade involves differentiated products, preferential ties to a group settled abroad facilitate an exporter's entry into the foreign market by providing information and access to distribution channels. This contrasts with the difficulties experienced by an unattached producer unfamiliar with...
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Quality of Bureaucracy and Open-Economy Macro Policies
Bai, Chong-En; Wei, Shang-Jin - 2021
Bureaucratic quality in terms of the level of corruption varies widely across countries, and is in general slow to …. In this paper, we study the possibility that quality of bureaucracy may be an important structural determinant of open … that delivers such a result. Bureaucratic corruption translates into reduced ability by the government to collect tax …
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Varieties and the Transfer Problem : The Extensive Margin of Current Account Adjustment
Corsetti, Giancarlo - 2010
Most analyses of the macroeconomic adjustment required to correct global imbalances ignore net exports of new varieties of goods and services and do not account for firms' entry in the product market. In this paper we revisit the macroeconomics of trade adjustment in the context of the classic...
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Market Access, Openness and Growth
Romalis, John - 2010
This paper identifies a causal effect of openness to international trade on growth. It does so by using tariff barriers of the United States as instruments for the openness of developing countries. Trade liberalization by a large trading partner causes an expansion in the trade of other...
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Entry and Competition in Local Hospital Markets
Abraham, Jean Marie - 2010
There has been considerable consolidation in the hospital industry in recent years. Over 900 deals occurred from 1994-2000, and many local markets, even in large urban areas, have been reduced to monopolies, duopolies, or triopolies. This surge in consolidation has led to concern about...
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Can Free Entry Be Inefficient? Fixed Commissions and Social Waste in the Real Estate Industry
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2010
Real estate agents in the US typically charge a 6 percent commission, regardless of the price of the house sold. As a consequence, the commission fee from selling a house will differ dramatically across cities depending on the average price of housing, although the effort necessary to match...
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