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An International Comparison of Voting by Committees
Jung, Alexander - 2011
This paper provides new empirical evidence on policy-makers' voting patterns on interest rates. Applying (pooled …) Taylor-type rules and using real-time information available from published inflation reports and voting records, the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120227
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Kleptocracy, Totalitarianism and Corruption
Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2014
the Sudan. The theory introduced here is that the regime was built on kleptocratic framework. That enhanced a rapid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014043955
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Resource Rents, Political Rights and Civil Liberties
Breunig, Robert V. - 2020
Using data for the 2005-2017 period, we consider the effects of resource rents on the sub-components of Freedom House's measures of Political Rights and Civil Liberties. Higher resource rents lead to a deterioration in Political Pluralism and Participation, but do not affect other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840711
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Corruption under Austerity
Daniele, Gianmarco - 2020
In this paper, we study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may lead to a reduction in corruption. We exploit the extension of one such policy, the Domestic Stability Pact (DSP), to Italian municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants that occurred in 2013. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842359
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Corruption under Austerity
Daniele, Gianmarco - 2020
In this paper, we study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may lead to a reduction in corruption. We exploit the extension of one such policy, the Domestic Stability Pact (DSP), to Italian municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants that occurred in 2013. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843596
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Corruption
Lisciandra, Maurizio - 2017
Corruption can be generally intended as an (illicit) exchange between a member of an organization and another subject at the expense of either the organization itself or the rights of others, in which acts of power in contrast with official duty are exchanged for personal advantage. This general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944774
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A Tragic Solution to the Collective Action Problem : Implications for Corruption, Conflict and Inequality
Nieva, Ricardo - 2020
We study the role of an enforcer in the effectiveness of selective incentives in solving the collective action problem when groups take part in a contest. Cost functions exhibit constant elasticity of marginal effort costs. If prize valuations are homogeneous, our source of heterogeneity induces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822548
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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda - 2010
politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148349
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Corruption Under Austerity
Daniele, Gianmarco; Giommoni, Tommaso - 2021
We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the extension of one such policy, the Domestic Stability Pact (DSP), to small Italian municipalities. The DSP led to a decrease in both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244240
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The Political Economy of Corruption and the Role of Financial Institutions
Hainz, Christa; Fuchs, Kira - 2021
positions. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318955