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Trust in Public Institutions Over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey - 2011
We document that trust in public institutions--and particularly trust in banks, business and government--has declined … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128268
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Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?
Acemoglu, Daron - 2011
Voters often dismantle constitutional checks and balances on the executive. If such checks and balances limit presidential abuses of power and rents, why do voters support their removal? We argue that by reducing politician rents, checks and balances also make it cheaper to bribe or influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121590
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Choosing Size of Government Under Ambiguity : Infrastructure Spending and Income Taxation
Manski, Charles F. - 2012
Attempting to shed light on the optimal size of government, economists have analyzed planning problems that specify a … choice of a planner who knows the welfare achieved by each policy. This paper examines choice of size of government by a … a wide range of spending levels--thus, a society can rationalize having a small or large government. I conclude that to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104080
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106303
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Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals
Di Tella, Rafael - 2010
We construct measures of the extent to which the 4 main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption in their … government advertising. The correlation is negative. The size is considerable: a one standard deviation increase in monthly … government advertising (0.26 million pesos of 2000) is associated with a reduction in the coverage of the government's corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150730
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Power Fluctuations and Political Economy
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
We study the constrained Pareto efficient allocations in a dynamic production economy in which the group that holds political power decides the allocation of resources. We show that Pareto efficient allocations take a quasi-Markovian structure and can be represented recursively as a function of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150732
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Partisan Representation in Congress and the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds
Albouy, David - 2010
In a two-party legislature, districts represented by the majority may receive greater funds if majority-party legislators have greater proposal power or disproportionately form coalitions with each other. Funding types received by districts may depend on their legislators' party-identity when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151387
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Is the "Surge" Working? Some New Facts
Greenstone, Michael - 2007
state bonds, which the Iraqi government is currently servicing, on world financial markets. After the Surge, there was a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775883
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The Political Economy of Warfare
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2007
Warfare is enormously destructive, and yet countries regularly initiate armed conflict against one another. Even more surprisingly, wars are often quite popular with citizens who stand to gain little materially and may lose much more. This paper presents a model of warfare as the result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778156
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Education and the Quality of Government
Botero, Juan Carlos - 2018
about misconduct by government officials, so that, even when each complaint is unlikely to succeed, more frequent complaints … between education and the quality of government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940197