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Corruption, Rule of Law, and Economic Efficiency: Virginia vs. Chicago Public Choice Theories
Grochová, Ladislava; Otáhal, Tomáš - Provozně ekonomická fakulta, Mendelova Univerzita v Brnĕ - 2012
Can corruption improve economic efficiency? Classical political economists argue that corruption undermines the rule of … law (Smith 2001, chap 5). The modern Public Choice proponents argue that corruption and lobbying might influence the … efficiency of the rule of law. While Chicago Public Choice scholars model how legal lobbying, which is corruption in Virginia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883432
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Corruption, Rule of Law, and Economic Efficiency: Selected Anecdotic Evidence of Bureaucratic Corruption from the Czech and Slovak Republics
Grochová, Ladislava; Otáhal, Tomáš - Provozně ekonomická fakulta, Mendelova Univerzita v Brnĕ - 2011
Can corruption improve economic efficiency? Classical political economists argue that corruption undermines the rule of … law (Smith 2001, chap 5). The modern Public Choice proponents argue that corruption might influence the efficiency of the … rule of law. While Chicago Public Choice scholars model how corruption improves efficiency of the rule of law and thus the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318235
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Can Tight and Centralized Financial Regulation Prevent Financial Crises? Czech Government Bond Seignorage in the Historical Perspective
Otáhal, Tomáš; Rybacek, Vaclav - Provozně ekonomická fakulta, Mendelova Univerzita v Brnĕ - 2011
Can tight and centralized financial regulation prevent financial crises? Governments usually respond to financial crises with tightening and centralizing financial regulation. In this paper, we explore the historical parallels between the governmental responses to the financial crises at the end...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318237
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Corruption, Rule of Law, and Economic Efficiency: Virginia vs. Chicago Public Choice Theories
Grochova, Ladislava; Otahal, Tomas - In: ACTA VSFS 6 (2012) 2, pp. 136-154
Can corruption improve economic efficiency? Classical political economists argue that corruption undermines the rule of … law (Smith, 2001, chap. 5). The modern Public Choice proponents argue that corruption and lobbying might influence the … efficiency of the rule of law. While Chicago Public Choice scholars model how legal lobbying, which is corruption in V irginia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010665484
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How bureaucracy and corruption affect economic growth and convergence in the European Union: The case of Greece
Papaconstantinou, Panagiota; Tsagkanos, Athanasios G.; … - In: Managerial Finance 39 (2013), pp. 837-847
Purpose – This paper aims to examine the impact of corruption and bureaucracy on economic growth in Greece as measured … beta convergence theory. Findings – The results confirm the negative impact of bureaucracy and corruption on economic … growth. However, the corruption exerts a more significant influence on growth than bureaucracy. Also, the timing of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010709756
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Basic needs and employment: decentralised planning in India.
Vyas, V. S; Bhatt, A. P; Shah, S. M - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1983
case studies of rural development and rural employment experiments; outlines the obstacles inherent in bureaucracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967103
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Window-Dressing and Lobbying in Performance-Budgeting: a Model for the Public Sector
Bischoff, Ivo; Blaeschke, Frédéric - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 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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On the cost of rent-seeking by government bureaucrats in a Real-Business-Cycle framework
Vasilev, Aleksandar - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2013
This paper studies the wasteful e ffect of bureaucracy on the economy by addressing the link between rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722675
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Bureaucratic Rent-Seeking in the European Union
Brandt, Urs Steiner; Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2003
Our theoretical model suggests that ‘bureaucratisation’ is a potential threat to future economic growth in the EU. The bureaucratic incentives to budget maximize leads to overwhelming pressure for new administrative tasks because bureaucracies are competing for resources just like fishermen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642097
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Doing Well While Intending Good: Cases in Political Exploitation
Mitchell, William C.; Munger, Michael C. - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 5 (1993) 3, pp. 317-348
Exploitation has a deservedly bad reputation as an analytic concept in the social sciences. But this need not be so; a simple definition of exploitation is advanced that has a positive basis. Exploitation should be defined as the result of rent-seeking activity that results in social outcomes...
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