politicians' quality is positively affected by their wage and apply a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design relying on the fact …

suggest that while civil service reforms might weaken the bureaucratic clientelism, the pre-existing patronclient relations …

politicians ascent to higher office, if it entails stricter scrutiny that may reduce favoritism. Around close Congress elections …, we find RDD-based evidence of this adverse effect that a politicians win reduces his former classmates firms stock value … effect. It further varies with politicians power, firm size and governance, and connection strength, and diminishes as a …