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Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2008

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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Decentralizing aid with interested parties

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2006

This paper analyses the decentralization of decisionmaking in aid-giving in a theoretical rent-seeking framework. In this analysis the root donor establishes a necessary criterion for potential recipients: good governance. The potential recipients compete in hierarchal contests for funds. The...

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Understanding the development of fundamentalism

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002

Fundamentalist organizations and the terrorists they spawn do not arise of a vacuum. Combating terrorism requires understanding the principles of groups’ formation, development and growth. We use economic theory to explain the creation and development of fundamentalist groups. In this paper we...

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Making aid work : governance and decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015

Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...

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Making aid work : governance and decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014

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Making aid work : governance and decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437089

Herding, rent-seeking taxpayers, and endemic corruption

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022

In an environment with extensive corruption where much of the population evades paying their full taxes due, we tackle the question of optimal taxation when constituencies with opposing objectives (the poor and the rich) push tax policy in different directions. We think in terms of a government...

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A Note on Poverty in Kosovo

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2006

Kosovo is a war-torn corner of the former Yugoslavia, where a civil war between ethnic Albanians and ethnic Serbs raged during most of the 1990s. We examine the incidence and depth of poverty and some of its correlates in post-conflict Kosovo using the Living Standards Measurement Survey.

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Wage Growth and Inequality Change During Rapid Economic Transition

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2006

East Germany, a unique socialist command economy prior to the 1990s, underwent rapid transition to a market …-oriented economic system. This transition has been of intense interest given the environment of Eastern Germany vis-a-vis Western … Germany, a setting different from most other transition economies. However, changes in the Eastern wage structure during …

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Ethnic Conflict and Economic Disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2006

Using the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household survey from post-conflict Kosovo we investigate the comparative economic well-being of Serbs and Albanians. An Oaxaca decomposition shows Serb households are both better endowed with income generating characteristics, such as...

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