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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 …
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Government corruption is more prevalent in poor countries than in rich countries. This paper uses cross …-industry heterogeneity in growth rates within Vietnam to test empirically whether growth leads to lower corruption. We find that it does. We … results suggest that as poor countries grow, corruption could subside "on its own,'' and they demonstrate one type of positive …
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We build an endogenous growth model to analyze the relationships between taxation, corruption, and economic growth … infrastructure. Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model … predicts an inverted-U relationship between taxation and growth, with corruption reducing the optimal taxation level. We find …
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confirmation of this aspect of natural resources. Waste and corruption from oil rather than Dutch disease has been responsible for … distributing the oil revenues to the public. Even with all the difficulties of corruption and inefficiency that will no doubt …
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threats, corruption, and other relevant controls. While growth falls with higher levels of military spending, given the values …
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transaction difficulties. But, such environments often also feature highly interventionist government, and even corruption …
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Growing concerns about low awareness and take-up rates for government support programs like college financial aid have spurred calls to simplify the application process and enhance visibility. This project examines the effects of two experimental treatments designed to test of the importance of...
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illustrate that organizational design and anti-corruption policies must balance agency issues at different levels of the …
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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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The current paper presents a method of deciding the question of whether any given stage in the budget process is an example of the "political" or the "bureaucratic" model. We then use it to study local government spending on education. The basis for our method is the important difference between...
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