Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2018
We study the local favoritism of appointed German state ministers. Matching hand-collected data on ministers’ place of …, this effect is ostensibly due to apolitical favoritism (home bias) rather than electoral considerations. We conclude that … favoritism may lead to a distortion in the allocation of public resources even in contexts with strong political institutions. …