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Decarolis, Francesco; Mattera, Gianpiero; Menon, Carlo - 2021

This study assesses the causal effect of the inefficiency of the judicial system on the delay in the execution of public contracts. We apply a border-discontinuity design that leverages the variation in the length of civil proceedings across Italian jurisdictions and a granular dataset of public...

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Tribal Sovereignty and Economic Efficiency Versus the Courts

Miller, Robert J. - 2022

onerous and even outrageous requirements on tribal governments that violate well-recognized principles of efficiency …

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The role of the judiciary in the public decision making process

Albanese, Giuseppe; Sorge, Marco M. - 2010

, focusing on two dimensions of quality of the judiciary, namely efficiency and integrity. We present a multi-layer lobbying …

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The transaction costs perspective on costs and benefits of government regulation

Butter, Frank A. G. den; Graaf, Marc de; Nijsen, André F. - 2009

This paper explores the feasibility to extend the Standard Cost Model (SCM) for calculating the costs of government regulation by taking all transaction costs into account which stem from the principal/agent relationship between regulatory authorities and economic entities. From that perspective...

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Political drivers of and barriers to Public-Private Partnerships : the role of political involvement

Gawel, Erik - 2011

solutions that are theoretically desirable given certain ideal goals (e.g. efficiency) and conditions can be referred to as … political bias. So what role does the political process play in the realisation of PPPs, in the actual design of PPPs, and in … (efficient) PPPs and that it is likely to decrease efficiency either way. A case study for userfinancing PPPs in the transport …

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Agency Problems and Political Institutions

Mitnick, Barry M. - 2013

To a very large extent, politics is agency. Indeed, agent-principal relationships pervade public and public-private behavior. This paper reviews the extensive but not yet integrated literature applying agency concepts to political settings. This includes agency in definitions of politics or...

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Regulation As Delegation

Bar-Gill, Oren - 2015

In diverse areas – from retirement savings, to fuel economy, to prescription drugs, to consumer credit, to food and beverage consumption – government makes personal decisions for us or helps us make what it sees as better decisions. In other words, government serves as our agent. Understood...

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Why and How Independent Agencies Should Conduct Regulatory Impact Analysis

Ellig, Jerry - 2018

Independent regulatory agencies face increasing pressure to conduct high-quality economicanalysis of regulations, similar to the regulatory impact analysis conducted by executive branchagencies. Such analysis could be required by evolving judicial doctrines, regulatory reformstatutes, or...

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Stigler's Theory of Economic Regulation After Fifty Years

Peltzman, Sam - 2021

George Stigler’s “The Theory of Economic Regulation” (1971) is a landmark in the economics of regulation. It used simple public choice reasoning to set out the “capture theory” of regulation whereby “… as a rule, regulation is acquired by the industry and is designed and operated...

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Theory and Practice in Tax Administration

Camp, Bryan - 2010

Processing (ADP) - particularly since WWII - has given the IRS wonderful efficiency in sorting through massive amounts of …

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