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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006
correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy …. -- public sector ; rents ; life satisfaction ; corruption ; judicial independence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278945
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tame bureaucracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317746
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How does corruption in Central and Eastern Europe hurt economic growth? : Granger test of causality
Grochová, Ladislava; Otáhal, Tomáš - In: Ekonomický časopis : časopis pre ekonomickú … 61 (2013) 6, pp. 563-577
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How Corruption Affects Bank Lending in Russia
Weill, Laurent - 2012
The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of corruption on bank lending in Russia. This issue is of major … interest in order to understand the causes of financial underdevelopment and the effects of corruption in Russia. We use … regional measures of corruption and bank-level data to perform this investigation. Our main estimations show that corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109320
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The marginal utility of income
Layard, Peter R. G.; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen J. - 2008 - Revised version
In normative public economics it is crucial to know how fast the marginal utility of income declines as income increases. One needs this parameter for cost-benefit analysis, for optimal taxation and for the (Atkinson) measurement of inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630578
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Outside earnings, absence, and activity : evidence from German parliamentarians
Arnold, Felix; Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014
We examine moonlighting by politicians in Germany. In July 2007, the German Supreme Court adjudicated that members of parliament (MPs) have to publish details of their outside earnings. Using panel data models, we investigate how outside earnings are correlated with absence and parliamentary...
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Politics in the family : nepotism and the hiring decisions of Italian firms
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Manacorda, Marco - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442303
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Politics in the family : nepotism and the hiring decisions of Italian firms
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Manacorda, Marco - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455710
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The Economic Effects of Constitutions : Replicating - and Extending - Persson and Tabellini
Blume, Lorenz; Müller, Jens; Voigt, Stefan; Wolf, Carsten - 2021
Persson and Tabellini (2003) show that presidential regimes and majoritarian election systems have important effects on fiscal policy, government effectiveness and productivity. Here, their dataset is extended in a number of ways: the number of countries included is increased from 85 to up to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317083
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Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes : evidence from Germany for 1953-2017
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - 2020
We analyze the impact of elected competitors from the same constituency on legislative shirking in the German Bundestag from 1953 to 2017. The German electoral system ensures that there is always at least one federal legislator per constituency with a varying number of elected competitors from...
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