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On Self Selection of the Corrupt into the Public Sector
Banerjee, Ritwik; Baul, Tushi; Rosenblat, Tanya - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2015
Do corrupt people self select themselves in professions where the scope of corruption is high? We conduct a corruption … experiment with private sector job aspirants and aspirants of Indian bureaucracy. The game models embezzlement of resources in … more corruption than private sector aspirants but the likelihood of being corrupt is same across two sectors. …
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On self selection of the corrupt into the public sector
Banerjee, Ritwik; Baul, Tushi; Rosenblat, Tanya - In: Economics Letters 127 (2015) C, pp. 43-46
Do corrupt people self select themselves in professions where the scope of corruption is high? We conduct a corruption … experiment with private sector job aspirants and aspirants of Indian bureaucracy. The game models embezzlement of resources in … more corruption than private sector aspirants but the likelihood of being corrupt is same across two sectors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189525
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The Politics of Policies: Economic and Social Progress in Latin America: 2006 Report Title: La política de las políticas públicas: Progreso económico y social en América Latina: In...
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Mateo-Berganza Diaz, Maria Mercedes - Inter-American Development Bank
This report examines the quality of public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean after more than a decade of political and economic reform. A wide variety of examples and case studies are presented in an analytical framework to help explain why policies that work in certain institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943613
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Transition to Entrepreneurship from the Public Sector: Predispositional and Contextual Effects
Özcan, Serden; Reichstein, Toke - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 4, pp. 604-618
Studies of career dynamics implicitly claim that government employees are not entrepreneurial. Utilizing longitudinal data from the U.S. Panel Study for Income Dynamics, we investigate the reasons for the low rate of entrepreneurship from the public sector. We conjecture that it is due to labor...
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Time consistency and bureaucratic budget competition
Konrad, Kai A.; Kessing, Sebastian G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
makers in a public sector bureaucracy with very high employment protection. The results confirm that decision makers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096172
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The Politics of Policies: Economic and Social Progress in Latin America: 2006 Report Title: La política de las políticas públicas: Progreso económico y social en América Latina: In...
Murillo, Maria Victoria; Schneider, Ben Ross; … - Inter-American Development Bank
This report examines the quality of public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean after more than a decade of political and economic reform. A wide variety of examples and case studies are presented in an analytical framework to help explain why policies that work in certain institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895499
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BUREAUCRACY AND CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTING
IONESCU, Luminiţa; CALOIAN, Florentin - In: Annals of Spiru Haret University, Economic Series 5 (2014) 1, pp. 17-23
Bureaucracy and corruption represent major causes of fiscal crises, and structural unemployment all over the world …. According to WEF 2014 Global Risk Report, the bureaucracy has a high level in European countries and appreciation is growing … in the future. Corruption is growing in a changing global environment and is considered one of the most important …
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Governance and Developing Asia: Concepts, Measurements, Determinants, and Paradoxes
Quibria, M.G. - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2014
Recent years have seen the emergence of a considerable volume of literature on governance and its role in economic and social development of a country. This paper provides a critical review of the literature. This review brings into the open a number of serious conceptual, measurement, and data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992042
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Coordination under global random interaction and local imitation
Khan A. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2013
We study stochastically stable behaviour in 2 x 2 coordination games where the risk-dominant equilibrium differs from the Pareto-efficient equilibrium. Individuals are randomly matched to another individual in the population with full support and they choose strategies by imitating the most...
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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 …
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