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Window-dressing and lobbying in performance-budgeting: A model for the public sector

Bischoff, Ivo; Blaeschke, Frédéric - 2012

Performance budgeting schemes in the public sector have to operate with imperfect performance measures. We argue that these imperfections lead to wasteful fund-seeking (window dressing and lobbying) by the administrative units that produce public services. We develop a game-theoretical model to...

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Conditional Grants, Grant-Seeking and Welfare when there is Government Failure on the Subordinate Level

Bischoff, Ivo - 2008

The paper addresses the welfare implications of conditional grants if government failure leads to inefficiencies in the production of regional public goods and services. Conditional grants may improve welfare by setting incentives for regions to improve efficiency. At the same time, resources...

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The design of vertical R&D collaborations

Herbst, Patrick; Walz, Uwe - 2009

Suppliers play a major role in innovation processes. We analyze ownership allocations and the choice of R&D technology in vertical R&D cooperations. Given incomplete contracts on the R&D outcome, there is a tradeoff between R&D specifically designed towards a manufacturer (increasing investment...

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Voluntary Agreements under Endogenous Legislative Threats

Glachant, Matthieu - 2003

The paper analyzes the welfare properties of voluntary agreements (VA) with polluters, when they are obtained under the legislative threat of an alternative stricter policy option. In the model, the threat is an abatement quota. Both the threat and its probability of implementation are...

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On the Determinants of Labour Market Institutions: Rent-sharing vs. Social Insurance

Agell, Jonas - 2000

What determines the structure of labour market institutions? This paper argues that common explanations based on rent sharing are incomplete; unions, job protection, and egalitarian pay structures may have as much to do with social insurance of otherwise uninsurable risks as with rent sharing and...

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Selecting less Corruptible Bureaucrats

Hu, Audrey; Zhou, Liang - 2007

A government officials' propensity to corruption, or corruptibility, can be affected by his intertemporal preference over job benefits. Through a dynamic model of rent-seeking behavior, this paper examines how endogenously determined corruptibility changes with monitoring intensity, salary...

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Group specific public goods, orchestration of interest groups and free riding

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2009

We consider a two group contest over a group specific public good where each member of a group has a different benefit from the good. Our model can be interpreted in two ways: Each of the players has a non-linear investment cost in the contest, or alternatively, the returns to effort are...

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Political culture and discrimination in contests

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010

contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main … objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … contestants. The weights assigned to the public well being and the contestants' efforts represent the political culture while …

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Who gains from information asymmetry?

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2013

This article considers an asymmetric contest with incomplete information. There are two types of players: informed and uninformed. Each player has a different ability to translate effort into performance in terms of the contest success function. While one player's type is known to both players,...

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Cooperation and effort in group contests

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2011

We consider a two group contest over a group specific public good comparing two situations: (i) when all players act independently; and (ii) when the players of each group cooperate. This comparison leads us to the conclusion that it is possible for one group to contribute more (and have a...

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