Narrow search
Showing 61 - 70 of 211,211
Cover Image
Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy
Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006
's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized, and characterize the 'corruptibility' of bureaucrats in each case. Results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330459
Cover Image
Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy
Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006
In many transition economies, insiders controlled state-owned firms, de facto. For such firms, we model the decision about privatization method, focusing on the choice between free distribution (so called ‘mass privatization’) and management-employee buyouts. We incorporate a political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003342111
Cover Image
Helping hand or grabbing hand? : State bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor);  … - 2008
privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity … this effect is driven by the impact of bureaucracy on the post-privatization business environment, with better … institutional support and less corruption when bureaucracies are large. -- privatization ; bureaucracy ; economic reform ; Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809958
Cover Image
Bureaucrats in parliament : theory and evidence on its determinants in Germany
Brändle, Thomas; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
This paper addresses the personal linkages between the public administration and the legislature that emerge because public servants pursue a political mandate. There are concerns that the strong representation of bureaucrats in many Western parliaments compromises the constitutionally proposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003891292
Cover Image
Public servants in parliament : theory and evidence on its determinants in Germany
Stutzer, Alois; Brändle, Thomas - 2009
This paper addresses the personal linkages between the public service and the legislature that emerge because public servants pursue a political mandate. There are concerns that the strong representation of public servants in many Western parliaments compromises the constitutionally proposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003899064
Cover Image
The citizen-candidate model with imperfect policy control
Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - 2012
the cost of running as a candidate is arbitrarily small. -- elections ; polarization ; strategic delegation ; bureaucracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571743
Cover Image
A new institutionalist analysis on emerging donorship : explaining the rise of the knowledge dimension in the South Korean aid regime
Yi, Jisun - 2015
the inside dynamics of an emerging donor government - pinpointing why aid bureaucracy stands at the centre of the rise of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283000
Cover Image
Petty corruption and citizen feedback
Angelucci, Charles; Russo, Antonio - 2015
Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate feedback in public officials' incentives. The main novelty of our proposal is to allow citizens to directly influence officials' pay. We consider a situation in which entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343756
Cover Image
Hyperbolic discounting and politics : the beneficial effects of bureaucrats
Drometer, Marcus - 2006
. Finally, we derive a positive relationship between the optimal level of a bureaucracy's influence and the relevance of long …-term investments in a given policy area. -- political agency ; hyperbolic discounting ; bureaucracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009744916
Cover Image
Incentives and influence activities in the public sector : the trade-off in performance budgeting and conditional grants
Bischoff, Ivo; Blaeschke, Frédéric - 2013 - This version: March 15, 2013
-seeking ; bureaucracy ; public-sector production ; conditional grants ; opportunistic government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723181