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From Nothing to Too Much : Regulatory Reform in Greece

Hatzis, Aristides N.; Nalpantidou, Sonia - 2013

After many years of an impasse in attempts to introduce Regulatory Impact Assessment to Greece the Greek Prime Minister announced in July of 2006 the introduction of a very ambitious Integrated Impact Assessment on the economy, the society and the environment. The model presented was at the same...

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Religious Competition and Reallocation : The Political Economy of Secularization in the Protestant Reformation

Cantoni, Davide - 2017

Using novel microdata, we document an unintended, first-order consequence of the Protestant Reformation: a massive reallocation of resources from religious to secular purposes. To understand this process, we propose a conceptual framework in which the introduction of religious competition shifts...

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Hold-Up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points

Hart, Oliver - 2010

cooperation. We show that a judicious allocation of asset ownership can help by reducing the incentives to engage in hold up. In …

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Property Rights to Frontier Land and Minerals : Us Exceptionalism

Libecap, Gary D. - 2018

over assets and who bears the costs and benefits of those decisions. They assign ownership, wealth, political influence …

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State Versus Private Ownership

Shleifer, Andrei - 2021

Private ownership should generally be preferred to public ownership when the incentives to innovate and to contain … the role of prices under socialism and capitalism and ignored the enormous importance of ownership as the source of … addressed through government contacting and regulation without resort to government ownership. The case for private provision …

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On the Ends of the State : Stationary Bandits and the Time Horizon in Eastern Congo

Henn, Soeren; Mugaruka, Christian; Ortiz, Miguel; … - 2022

We show that armed actors refrain from using their power to arbitrarily steal from an economy if, and only if, the armed actors' property rights over stealing from that economy are secure. By 2009, armed actors taxed, administered, and protected various villages in Democratic Republic of the...

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Private Returns to Public Office

Fisman, Raymond J. - 2012

We study the wealth accumulation of Indian parliamentarians using public disclosures required of all candidates since 2003. Annual asset growth of winners is on average 3 to 6 percentage points higher than runners-up. By performing a within-constituency comparison where both runner-up and winner...

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Sales Force and Competition in Financial Product Markets : The Case of Mexico's Social Security Privatization

Hastings, Justine S. - 2014

This paper examines how sales force impact competition and equilibrium prices in the context of a privatized pension market. We use detailed administrative data on fund manager choices and worker characteristics at the inception of Mexico's privatized social security system, where fund managers...

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The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

ownership, private ownership and human capital are all strongly correlated with better management. This implies that the …

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Private Politics and Public Regulation

Egorov, Georgy - 2013

We develop a dynamic game to explore the interaction between regulation and private policies, such as self-regulation by firms and activism. Without a public regulator, the possibility of self-regulation is bad for the firm, but good for activists who are willing to maintain a costly boycott to...

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