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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 …
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Local Government Budgeting : The Econometric Comparison of Political and Bureaucratic Models
Feldstein, Martin S.; Frisch, Daniel J. - 2021
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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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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Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States
Acemoglu, Daron - 2006
they may further expand the size of bureaucracy so as to gain additional votes. The model shows that an equilibrium with an …
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The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States
Acemoglu, Daron - 2017
Societies under similar geographic and economic conditions and subject to similar external influences nonetheless develop very different types of states. At one extreme are weak states with little capacity and ability to regulate economic or social relations. At the other are despotic states...
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Conveniently Upset : Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others
Di Tella, Rafael - 2011
In this paper we present the results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that the second player can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131979
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Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing
Dal Bo, Ernesto - 2010
We present an infinite-horizon model of moral standards where self-esteem and unconscious drives play key roles. In the model, an individual receives random temptations (such as bribe offers) and must decide which to resist. Individual actions depend both on conscious intent and a type...
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Does "Grease Money" Speed Up the Wheels of Commerce?
Kaufmann, Daniel; Wei, Shang-Jin - 2021
reduce the effective red tape it faces. The efficient grease' hypothesis asserts therefore that corruption can improve …
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Bureaucracy as a Mechanism to Generate Information
Novaes, Walter - 2010
argues that the thin line between efficient management practices and inefficient bureaucracy is crossed to curb managerial … agency costs in a multi-layer hierarchy. The model predicts that bureaucracy increases with the frequency of managerial … turnover, and it establishes a link between bureaucracy, incentive schemes, and leverage in a cross-section of firms …
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Bureaucrats or Politicians?
Alesina, Alberto F.; Tabellini, Guido - 2021
Policies are typically chosen by politicians and bureaucrats. This paper investigates the e fficiency criteria for allocating policy tasks to elected policymakers (politicians) or non elected bureaucrats. Politicians are more efficient for tasks that do not involve too much specific technical...
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