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The macroeconomics of corruption : governance and growth

Ivanyna, Maksym; Mourmouras, Alexandros Thomas; … - 2018

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Populism and the return of the "paranoid style" : some evidence and a simple model of demand for incompetence as insurance against elite betrayal

Di Tella, Rafael; Rotemberg, Julio - 2016

We present a simple model of populism as the rejection of “disloyal” leaders. We show that adding the assumption that people are worse off when they experience low income as a result of leader betrayal (than when it is the result of bad luck) to a simple voter choice model yields a...

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Should we wish the elite to engage in unethical behavior? : a consequentialist theory

Brezis, Elise S. - 2024

This paper investigates whether elite interconnections contribute to unethical behavior. It aims to present a clear … impact on the economy and societal welfare. This paper centers on a specific aspect of elite interconnection - the revolving … door. It shows that the entire power elite is responsible for orchestrating this procedure and, consequently, for engaging …

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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...

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