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Political Competition and Convergence to Fundamentals : With Application to the Political Business Cycle and the Size of the Public Sector
Ferris, J. Stephen; Park, Soo-Bin; Winer, Stanley L. - 2005
We address the problem of how to investigate whether economics, or politics, or both, matter in the explanation of public policy. We first pose the problem in a particular context by uncovering a political business cycle (using Canadian data covering 130 years), and by taking up the challenge to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061622
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Governance across organizations
Obata, Seki - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001717879
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Is Corruption Contagious? An Econometric Analysis
Attila, Joseph - 2008
In this paper, I analyze how corruption in one country may be affected by its neighbors' corruption. It seeks to … explain why corruption is perpetuating in large geographical areas populated by developing countries despite anticorruption … efforts made in the single country. In our empirical approach, we capture the spatial dependency by regional corruption. Three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012723025
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Are there differences between perception of corruption at public and private sector? : a multi-country analysis
Melgar, Natalia; Piani, Giorgina; Rossi, Máximo - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003820091
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Effects of public sector wages on corruption : wage inequality matters
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Lokshin, Michael; Kolchin, Vladimir - Weltbankgruppe - 2021
The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The … results show that wage inequality in the public sector is an important determinant of the effectiveness of anti-corruption … policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could help reduce corruption in countries with low public sector wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564880
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Effects of Public Sector Wages on Corruption : Wage Inequality Matters
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli - 2021
The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The … results show that wage inequality in the public sector is an important determinant of the effectiveness of anti-corruption … policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could help reduce corruption in countries with low public sector wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544659
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Corruption, workforce selection and mismatch in the public sector
Mocetti, Sauro; Orlando, Tommaso - In: European journal of political economy 60 (2019), pp. 1-21
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Jobs cronyism in public-sector firms
Martins, Pedro S. - 2020
Politicians can use the public sector to give jobs to cronies, at the expense of the efficiency of those organisations and general welfare. In this paper, we regress monthly hires across all firms in Portugal with some degree of public ownership on the country's 1980-2018 political cycle. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256494
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Effects of Public Sector Wages on Corruption : Wage Inequality Matters
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Lokshin, Michael; Kolchin, Vladimir - 2021
The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The … results show that wage inequality in the public sector is an important determinant of the effectiveness of anti-corruption … policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could help reduce corruption in countries with low public sector wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230630
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Effects of public sector wages on corruption : wage inequality matters
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Lokshin, Michael; Kolchin, Vladimir - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317156