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Decentralizing Development : Allocating Public Goods Via Competition
Chavis, Larry W. - 2012
Decentralizing the allocation of public goods by giving funds directly to communities takes advantage of local information concerning needs, but decreases the accountability over how funds are used; leaving funds open to misuse or capture by local elites. In Indonesia, the World Bank attempts to...
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Public Goods, Corruption, and the Political Resource Curse
Desierto, Desiree - 2019
Does corruption increase or decrease with public goods spending? I develop a model of public good provision by a rent … decrease corruption (in the form of bribes) if the marginal social value of the public goods from which the bribes are … effect on public spending, but unambiguously increases corruption (in the form of theft). Hence, a political resource curse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897152
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Education economics from a historical perspective
Schüler, Ruth M. - 2018
The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects prosperity and nation building in a setting of...
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Public Goods Provision with Rent-Extracting Administrators
Cagala, Tobias - 2018
This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927572
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Public Goods Provision with Rent-Extracting Administrators
Cagala, Tobias - 2018
This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929025
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Inequality, institutions and cooperation
Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020
relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305896
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Inequality, institutions, and cooperation
Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020
relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301914
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Public goods provision with rent-extracting administrators
Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Grimm, Veronika; … - 2017
This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778679
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The role of government and trust in the market economy
König, Nadja; Schuknecht, Ludger - 2018
This paper studies the role of governments and its link to trust. We argue that the public's trust strongly depends on governments delivering on their core tasks in a market economy. In some economies, a neglect of core tasks can be observed and there seems to be some erosion, notably in terms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825240
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Country size and public good provision
Staal, Klaas - 2004
This paper studies the equilibrium size of countries. Individuals in smallcountries have greater influence over the nature of political decision mak-ing while individuals in large countries have the advantage of more publicgoods and lower tax rates. The model implies that (i) there exists...
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