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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g., pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317746
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How does depreciations management affect subsequent fiscal performance? : the case of the Swiss cantons
Clémenceau, Maxime; Soguel, Nils - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 154 (2018) 1, pp. 1-15
financial performance as being more worrisome than it actually is. In that case, ministers press more than needed for lower … performance. …
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Provision of public goods in a federalist country : Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities … scheme to indeed have a negative influence on the performance of financially advantaged cantons. Surprisingly, however … performance, contradicting the rationale for their suppression in a recent reform. Most public services fail to exhibit economies …
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State Institutions and Tax Capacity : An Empirical Investigation of Causality
Akanbi, Olusegun Ayodele - 2019
Would better state institutions increase tax collection, or would higher tax collection help improve state institutions? In the absence of conclusive guidance from theory, this paper searches for an empirical answer to this question, using a panel dataset covering 110 non-resource-rich countries...
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State capacity and the quality of policies : revisiting the relationship between openness and the size of government
Chuaire, María Franco; Scartascini, Carlos G.; … - 2014
The literature has identified that countries with higher levels of openness tend to present a larger government sector as a way to reduce the risks to the economy that openness entails. This paper argues that there are a number of policies that can mitigate trade-induced risks, many of which do...
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How Much Do Perceptions of Corruption Really Tell Us?
Abramo, Claudio Weber - 2011
Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among the general population. In contrast, perceptions about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132136
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Agency Problems and Political Institutions
Mitnick, Barry M. - 2013
To a very large extent, politics is agency. Indeed, agent-principal relationships pervade public and public-private behavior. This paper reviews the extensive but not yet integrated literature applying agency concepts to political settings. This includes agency in definitions of politics or...
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Lucky You : Your Case is Heard by a Seasoned Panel - Panel Effects in the German Constitutional Court
Engel, Christoph - 2021
Panel effects have been widely studied in randomly composed panels. However for many courts, panel composition stays constant. Then judges become familiar with each other. They know what to expect from each other. There is room for mutual trust. A local culture may emerge. If rejection is the...
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Does efficiency Trump legality? : the case of the German Constitutional Court
Engel, Christoph - 2017
The US Supreme Court has the power of certiorari. It may pick its fights. As a beneficial side effect, the court may allocate its resources, in particular the time and energy the justices spend on a case, to worthy causes. In economic parlance, this discretion makes the court more efficient....
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