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The Pathology of Privilege : The Economic Consequences of Government Favoritism

Mitchell, Matthew D. - 2014

The financial bailouts of 2008 were but one example in a long list of privileges that governments occasionally bestow upon particular firms or particular industries. At various times and places, these privileges have included (among other things) monopoly status, favorable regulations,...

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Loyalty and competence : empirical evidence from public agencies

Wagner, Alexander F. (contributor) - 2006

Competent public agencies are associated with better economic outcomes. Beyond competence, political leaders need to secure the loyalty of their agencies. Unfortunately, several theories predict a tradeoff between these two valued features. This paper finds that recruitment into agencies is...

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Institutions and Resource Misallocation : Firm-level Evidence

Pellegrino, Bruno - 2019

Measures of institutional quality are strong predictors of cross-country differences in income and productivity. The institutional economics literature has long maintained that one way institutions influence economic growth is by impacting the efficient allocation of production factors across...

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Calhoun's Concurrent Majority as a Generality Norm

Salter, Alexander William - 2016

Political Economy. Specifically, this paper argues that Calhoun's theory of the concurrent majority offers a way of …

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A Theory of the Dynamics of Entangled Political Economy with Application to the Federal Reserve

Salter, Alexander William - 2015

a lack of a hard budget constraint, exports this feature to the economy organizations it oversees. The channel through …This paper develops the theory of entangled political economy by outlining a process by which the political … which it does so is the repeated interactions of economy and polity organizations' agents during times of crisis. The …

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Do nominations close the gender gap in competition?

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S. - 2020

Experiments have demonstrated that men are more willing to compete than women in stereotypically male tasks. We examine whether nominations close this gender gap. For example, are male nominators more willing than female nominators to enter nominees into competitions. Further, we consider the...

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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on government- and market-attitudes

Goff, Sandra; Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Reents, Alex - 2020

We study the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on college students' government- and market-attitudes using within-subject comparisons of survey responses elicited before and after the onset of the pandemic. We find that support for markets significantly declines after the onset of the pandemic, with...

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Präventive Handlungsfähigkeit des Staates im 21. Jahrhundert

Sturn, Richard - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 100 (2020) 7, pp. 531-537

Der Staat steht angesichts der Transformation von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft durch die Digitalisierung, die Globalisierung und den Klimawandel vor neuen und großen Herausforderungen. Diesen wird er am besten gerecht, wenn er Probleme präventiv behandelt und nicht ex post „heilt“. Um die...

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Public Management : ertüchtigte Staatlichkeit vor dem Hintergrund des politischen Paradoxons

Klüh, Ulrich - 2021 - This version: 31.05.2021

How can we toughen up the state against the backdrop of the transformative challenges of climate change, planetary boundaries, and technological progress? I examine this question through a fundamental analysis of the dimensions of democratic politics and the "management" of public affairs. I...

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Political Institutions and the Governmental Burden on Businesses

Zhong, Ruiqing - 2018

Businesses are "burdened" by government through corporate taxes and bureaucratic procedures. We interpret these two channels as tools for raising revenues and study, theoretically and empirically, how different political institutions rely on these tools. We establish two stylized facts: The...

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