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Bertuzzi, Luca; Eliason, Paul J.; Heebsh, Benjamin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Health insurers often tie payments to providers' quality of care. Although payers do this to elicit more effort from providers, some providers may game the system by avoiding patients who would cause their quality scores to fall. We use annual variation in the criteria for Medicare's Quality...

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Leadership, Coordination and Mission-Driven Management

Bolton, Patrick - 2008

What makes a good leader? A good leader is able to coordinate his followers around a credible mission statement, which communicates the future course of action of the organization. In practice, leaders learn about the best course of action for the organization over time. While learning helps...

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A Quantile-based Test of Protection for Sale Model

Imai, Susumu - 2008

This paper proposes a new test of the Protection for Sale (PFS) model by Grossman and Helpman (1994). Unlike existing methods in the literature, our approach does not require any data on political organizations. We formally show that the PFS model predicts that the quantile regression of the...

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Winning Isn't Everything : Corruption in Sumo Wrestling

Duggan, Mark - 2000

Although the theoretical literature on corruption is well developed, empirical work in this area has lagged because it … has proven difficult to isolate corrupt behavior in the data. In this paper, we look for evidence of corruption in an … stables play a role in facilitating the corruption. In times of increased media scrutiny, the match rigging disappears …

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Natural Openness and Good Government

Wei, Shang-Jin - 2000

This paper offers a new interpretation of the connection between openness and good governance. Assuming that corruption … display lower corruption in equilibrium. In data, naturally more open economies' do exhibit less corruption even after taking …

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Trade, Insecurity, and Home Bias : An Empirical Investigation

Anderson, James E. - 1999

Corruption and imperfect contract enforcement dramatically reduce trade. This paper estimates the reduction, using a …

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Embezzlement Versus Bribery

Fan, C. Simon - 2010

Corrupt officials can use their positions to enrich themselves in two ways. They can steal from the state budget--embezzling or misspending funds--or they can demand extra payments from citizens in return for services--bribery. In many circumstances, embezzlement is less distortionary than...

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Bribery : Who Pays, Who Refuses, What Are the Payoffs?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2005

households. The theory predicts that bribery is more attractive to both parties when the client is richer, and we find …

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Why is Fiscal Policy Often Procyclical?

Alesina, Alberto - 2005

Many countries, especially developing ones, follow procyclical fiscal polices, namely spending goes up (taxes go down) in booms and spending goes down (taxes go up) in recessions. We provide an explanation for this suboptimal fiscal policy based upon political distortions and incentives for...

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Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule : A Model of Personal Rule

Acemoglu, Daron - 2003

Many developing countries have suffered under the personal rule of kleptocrats', who implement highly inefficient economic policies, expropriate the wealth of their citizens, and use the proceeds for their own glorification or consumption. We argue that the success of kleptocrats rests, in part,...

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