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Economics of Political Clientelism and Corruption : A Theoretical Pathway

Pertev, Rasit - 2023

This paper proposes a preliminary economic model of political clientelism and corruption in developing countries with … electoral clientelism, and (iii) strategies of geographical/ethnic entities on remaining within a given republic or breaking … consolidate power by blending in state violence. Political clientelism and corruption are likely to provoke geographically …

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Democracy, Credibility and Clientelism

Keefer, Philip; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2012

-run, in contrast to the traditional view that clientelism in politics is a source of significant policy distortion. However …

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How do voters respond to welfare vis-à-vis public good programs? : theory and evidence of political clientelism

Bardhan, Pranab K.; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 15 (2024) 3, pp. 655-697

model, we argue these results provide credible evidence of the presence of clientelism rather than programmatic politics. …

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Corruption and political accountability in good and bad economic times

Barinas-Forero, Andrés; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2025

accountability. We validate these predictions through a laboratory experiment, finding that corruption rates significantly rise when …

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Inequality hinders group efforts to avoid environmental disasters

Brown, Thomas C.; Kroll, Stephan - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 1 (2021) 1, pp. 1-16

Using a threshold public good experiment, we examine how varying degrees of inequality in resources and differences in …

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Repeated interaction and its impact on cooperation and surplus allocation : an experimental analysis

Di Guida, Sibilla; The Anh Han; Kirchsteiger, Georg; … - In: Games 12 (2021) 1/25, pp. 1-19

This paper investigates how the possibility of affecting group composition combined with the possibility of repeated interaction impacts cooperation within groups and surplus distribution. We developed and tested experimentally a Surplus Allocation Game where cooperation of four agents is needed...

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Absolute vs. relative poverty and wealth : cooperation in the presence of between-group inequality

Levi, Eugenio; Ramalingam, Abhijit - 2023

comes from studies of within-group inequality. In an online public goods experiment, we instead examine the effects of …

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Risk aversion and information aggregation in binary-asset markets

Filippin, Antonio; Mantovani, Marco - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 14 (2023) 2, pp. 753-798

We investigate how risk aversion (RA) shapes the informative content of prices in an experimental asset market, where traders are sorted according to their RA. RA should induce steeper individual demands and, under its most common parametrizations, drive equilibrium prices closer to revealing...

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The institutional origins of statek-society relations

Sabry, Mohamed Ismail - In: Fulbright review of economics and policy 2 (2022) 2, pp. 161-183

Purpose: This paper investigates the factors responsible for the emergence of different arrangements of state-society relations. Being concerned with the relations related to the industrial sector, this study focuses more on state-business-labor relations (SBLRs), especially on power dynamics...

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Skill mismatch, nepotism, job satisfaction, and young females in the MENA region

Araissi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir - In: Econometrics : open access journal 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-20

Skills utilization is an important factor affecting labor productivity and job satisfaction. This paper examines the effects of skills mismatch, nepotism, and gender discrimination on wages and job satisfaction in MENA workplaces. Gender discrimination implies social costs for firms due to...

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