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What are the priorities of bureaucrats? Evidence from conjoint experiments with procurement officials
Tukiainen, Janne; Blesse, Sebastian; Bohne, Albrecht; … - 2021
tender outcomes. First, bureaucrats state to have substantial discretion at work but no important incentives. Second, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498741
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Reforming the public administration: The role of crisis and the power of bureaucracy
Asatryan, Zareh; Heinemann, Friedrich; Pitlik, Hans - 2015
The need to balance austerity with growth policies has put government efficiency high on the economic policy agenda in … Europe. Administrative reforms which boost the efficiency of the administration can alleviate the trade-off between … consolidation and public service provision. Against such backdrop, this study explores the determinants of efficiency enhancing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301337
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Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: Theory and evidence
Krieger, Tommy - 2022
We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...
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Improving efficiency and equality in school choice
Ortega, Josue; Klein, Thilo - 2022
empirically that both mechanisms perform poorly with regard to two key desiderata such as efficiency and equality, even in large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412967
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Voter Involvement, Fiscal Autonomy and Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence from German Municipalities
Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander - 2008
political sphere is related to government performance – in terms of its efficiency – using a broad panel of German … municipalities. Our results suggest that voter involvement indeed has a positive impact on (technical) efficiency. Crucially, however …, this efficiency-enhancing effect of voter involvement is significantly (positively) affected by local governments? fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298034
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Voter Involvement, Fiscal Autonomy and Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence from German Municipalities
Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
political sphere is related to government performance – in terms of its efficiency – using a broad panel of German … municipalities. Our results suggest that voter involvement indeed has a positive impact on (technical) efficiency. Crucially, however …, this efficiency-enhancing effect of voter involvement is significantly (positively) affected by local governments? fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097578
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The Accuracy and Efficiency of the Consensus Forecasts: A Further Application and Extension of the Pooled Approach
Ager, Philipp; Kappler, Marcus; Osterloh, Steffen - 2007
1996 to 2006 regarding bias and information efficiency. A pooled approach is employed which permits the evaluation of all … forecasts, especially with forecasts covering more than 12 months. In addition, information efficiency has to be rejected in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297948
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Determinants of Patent Litigation in Germany
Cremers, Katrin - 2004
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information from suits filed during the period from 1993 to 1995 at two of the three most important district courts. A control group was formed by selecting a random sample from the population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297398
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Patent litigation in Europe
Cremers, Katrin; Ernicke, Max; Gaessler, Fabian; … - 2013
We compare patent litigation cases across four European jurisdictions - Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK - covering cases filed during the period 2000-2008. For our analysis, we assemble a new dataset that contains detailed information at the case, litigant, and patent level for...
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The effect of patent litigation insurance: Theory and evidence from NPEs
Ganglmair, Bernhard; Helmers, Christian; Love, Brian J. - 2020
We analyze the extent to which private defensive litigation insurance deters patent assertion by non-practicing entities (NPEs). We study the effect that a patent-specific defensive insurance product, offered by a leading litigation insurer, had on the litigation behavior of insured patents'...
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