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Districting and Government Overspending
Baqir, Reza - 2006
The common-pool problem is a central issue in the relationship between the political structure of jurisdictions and the size of public spending. Models predict that, other things being equal, greater political districting of a jurisdiction raises the scale of government. This paper presents new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782806
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The political resource curse
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - 2010
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor. -- Government spending ; corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935021
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The political resource curse
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - 2010
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269401
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Districting and government overspending
Baqir, Reza - In: Journal of political economy 110 (2002) 6, pp. 1318-1354
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Districting and government overspending
Baqir, Reza - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001620689
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The size of political jurisdictions : a model with some evidence from a fascist consolidation
Andini, Monica; Dalmazzo, Alberto; De Blasio, Guido - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 45 (2017) 4, pp. 889-909
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011907937
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Districting and Government Overspending
Baqir, Reza - 2003
Theories of government spending driven by a common-pool problem in the fiscal revenues pool predict that greater districting of a political jurisdiction raises the scale of government. This paper presents evidence on this and related predictions from a cross section of city governments in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103201
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Districting and Government Overspending
Baqir, Reza - 2001
The common-pool problem is a central issue in the relationship between the political structure of jurisdictions and the size of public spending. Models predict that, other things being equal, greater political districting of a jurisdiction raises the scale of government. This paper presents new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403527
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Corrupt local government as resource farmers : the helping hand and the grabbing hand
Dalgic, Engin; Long, Ngo Van - 2004
We study the role of tax share and transparency of governance on growth and stagnation. A local government maximizes its private benefits using two activities. The first one consists of providing local public goods that help local firms to increase profits, thus enlarging tax revenue. The second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450277
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Corrupt local governments as resource farmers: The helping hand and the grabbing hand
Dalgic, Engin; Long, Ngo Van - In: European journal of political economy 22 (2006) 1, pp. 115-138
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003285680