How should a policy-maker prioritize interventions to improve the public infrastructure with which firms operate and … public input character of physical infrastructure and institutions, and uses an O-ring production function to model the … impact of poor quality infrastructure on output. Using survey data from over 72,000 firms in 95 countries, we verify the …

investment expenditures in public infrastructure in the sectors of education, health, and physical infrastructure is examined …

the data set and the empirical methods used to test for the presence of election-influenced spending, and presents the …

In this study, we examine the voting behavior in Indonesian parliamentary elections from 1999 to 2014. After … preference to abstention over the parties in some elections. From the point of view of retrospective economic voting, we found …

behaviour on the economy, it has not (yet) managed to fully develop a positively formulated "economic theory of politics" that …

effort so that performance becomes a more accurate signal of her ability. Elections reduce the experimentation effect, and … the reduction in this effect may more than offset the positive "career-concerns" effect of elections on effort. Moreover …, when this occurs, appointment of officeholders may Pareto-dominate elections. …