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We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the extension of one such policy, the Domestic Stability Pact (DSP), to small Italian municipalities. The DSP led to a decrease in both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per...
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This paper investigates the efficiency of the public sector in a sense of public performance and expenditures. For 23 …, security and infrastructure. We use several efficiency techniques (FDH, order-m) and investigate input- and output …-oriented efficiency of the public sector. We find that countries with small public sectors tend to be more efficient no matter which …
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The paper analyses the European Union sub-national governments' tax revenue structures and their dynamic during the last decades. Tax composition obtained a considerable interest during the recent years, particularly after the recent global financial and economic crisis. In many European Union...
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government efficiency developed differently after changes in accounting standards. Operating costs of administration, however …
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forecasters with economic interest (stakes) and in uence to publish biased forecasts prior to a referendum. We test our theory … institutions and the propaganda bias explains up to 50 percent of their forecast error. …
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forecasters with economic interest (stakes) and influence to publish biased forecasts prior to a referendum. We test our theory … institutions and the propaganda bias explains up to 50 percent of their forecast error. …
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