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Bribery : Who Pays, Who Refuses, What are the Payoffs?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2006
We provide a theoretical framework for understanding when an official angles for a bribe, when a client pays, and the payoffs to the client's decision. We test this frame work using a new data set on bribery of Peruvian public officials by households. The theory predicts that bribery is more...
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The revolving door indicator : estimating the distortionary power of the revolving door
Brezis, Elise S.; Cariolle, Joel - 2014
The "revolving door" phenomenon has become very common in most industrialised countries, and is leading to conflicts of interest as well as economic distortions. The purpose of this paper is to develop an indicator of the distortionary effects of the revolving door - The Revolving Door Indicator...
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Corruption, growth, and the environment : a cross-country analysis
Welsch, Heinz - 2003
-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given … corruption on pollution. The indirect effect via income is positive or negative depending on the income level. If negative, the … corruption. Because this relationship is particularly strong at low income levels, developing countries can considerably improve …
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Corruption and the Provision of Health Care and Education Services
Gupta, Sanjeev - 2007
Government intervention to correct market failures is often accompanied by government failures and corruption. This is …. However, the impact of corruption on the public provision of social services has not been analyzed. This paper reviews the … relevant theoretical models and users' perceptions of corruption in the public provision of social services. It then provides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778587
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Redistributive Politics, Corruption and Quality of Public Investment
Marjit, Sugata; Mukherjee, Vivekananda; Kolmar, Martin - 2005
"corruption". Such analytical distinction helps us in understanding how redistributive politics can adversely affect the quality … associated with a higher degree of corruption but somewhat lower magnitude of "redistributive politics". We build up a political … choice model where corruption and redistribution are treated as substitutes in the political strategy space. Our paper is …
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Inducing environmental co-operation by the design of emission permits
Ohl, Cornelia - 2002
Strategies of international risk management, as the implementation of tradable emission permits, feed back to the incentive structure of a treaty, like the Kyoto Protocol. Discussing the Kyoto Protocol the question was: Should there be any restrictions on the trading of emission permits or not?...
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Team incentives and leadership
Drouvelis, Michalis; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2015
We study, experimentally, how two alternative incentive mechanisms affect team performance, and how a team chooses between alternative mechanisms. We study a group incentive mechanism, where team output is shared equally among team members, and a hierarchical mechanism team output is allocated...
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Cooperation preferences in the provision of public goods : an experimental study on the effects of social identity
Lankau, Matthias; Bicskei, Marianna; Bizer, Kilian - 2012
Traditionally economic theory assumes that preferences are stable facilitating positive predictions of economic policy. While there is conflicting experimental evidence on the temporal stability of cooperation preferences in public goods provision, surprisingly little is known about their...
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Efficient Emissions Reduction
Roussillon, Beatrice - 2011
efficient productive and efficient abatement efforts. Participation in the most stylised formulation of the scheme is voluntary … participation enforcement through punishment clauses, exclusive trade agreements and environmental standards as effective means to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133859
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Monopolistic Competition and Public Good Provision with By-Product Firms
Pecorino, Paul - 2010
I develop a model in which the voluntary contributions mechanism for the provision of public goods totally breaks down in a large society. A by-product firm sells a private good and uses its profits to provide a public good. By-product firms compete with for-profit firms in a monopolistically...
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