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Where and why do politicians send pork? : evidence from central government transfers to French municipalities
Fabre, Brice; Sangnier, Marc - 2024
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Fiscal policy in centrally planned economies
Fetherston, Martin J. - 1981
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Knowing the right person in the right place : political connections and economic growth
Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Prarolo, … - 2009
We develop a model of Schumpeterian growth where political connections with long-term politicians can be exploited by low-quality producers to defend their monopoly position and prevent innovation and entry of high-quality competitors. Through personal relationships developed with the incumbent...
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Politics in the family : nepotism and the hiring decisions of Italian firms
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Manacorda, Marco - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442303
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Pyramid capitalism : cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt
Diwan, Ishac; Keefer, Philip; Schiffbauer, Marc - 2016
Using a large, original database of 385 politically connected firms under the Mubarak regime in Egypt, we document for the first time the negative impact of cronyism on economic growth. In the early 2000s, a policy shift in Egypt led to the expansion of crony activities into new, previously...
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Social policy in Venezuela : bucking neoliberalism or unsustainable clientelism
Buxton, Julia - 2014
This paper highlights the institutions, actors and processes that have driven social policy provision and health care in Venezuela during distinct political periods. The historical detail contextualises a protracted struggle over the distribution of the countryś oil wealth. The paper concurs...
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Political parties, clientelism, and bureaucratic reform
Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip - 2015
The challenge of public administration reform is well-known: politicians often have little interest in the efficient implementation of government policy. Using new data from 439 World Bank public sector reform loans in 109 countries, we demonstrate that such reforms are significantly less likely...
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From microeconomic favoritism to macroeconomic populism
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2019
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Can institutions cure clientelism? : assessing the impact of the Australian ballot in Brazil
Gingerich, Daniel - 2013
This paper examines how the adoption of the Australian ballot (AB), and ipso facto, the transition from the nominal to effective secret vote, shaped the nature of party politics in Brazil. Engaging the literature on political clientelism, the impact of the AB on three outcomes is studied: 1) the...
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The effect of tracking students by ability into different schools : a natural experiment
Guyon, Nina; Maurin, Eric; McNally, Sandra - 2010
The tracking of pupils by ability into elite and non-elite schools represents a controversial policy in many countries …. There is no consensus on how large the elite track should be and little agreement on the effects of any further increase in … its size. This paper presents a natural experiment where the increase in the size of the elite track was followed by a …
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