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Fetzer, Thiemo; Shaw, Callum; Edenhofer, Jacob - 2024

Formal conceptions of state capacity have mostly focused on indirect measures of state capacity – by, for instance, using the state's fiscal or extractive capacity as a proxy for its overall capacity. Yet, this input or extractive view of state capacity falls short, especially since...

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Corruption in Russia - Historic Legacy and Systemic Nature

Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2018

This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a...

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A model of strategic delegation in contests between groups

Brandauer, Stefan; Englmaier, Florian - 2006

We analyze a contest between two groups where group members have differing valuations for the contested rent. Generically the pivotal group member with the median valuation of the rent will not act himself but will want to send a group member that has preferences different to her own into the...

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(Dis)honest Politicians and the Value of Transparency for Campaign Promises

Lang, Matthias; Schudy, Simeon Andreas Dermot - 2020

Promises are prevalent in many competitive environments, but promise keeping is often difficult to observe. Do promises still offer an opportunity to honor future obligations, if promise keeping is unobservable? Focusing on campaign promises, we study the value of transparency. We show how...

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Political Accountability and Real Authority of Government Bureaucracy

Dodlova, Marina - 2013

In a country with weak institutional constraints on the executive, the real power might belong to the government bureaucracy rather than to an autocratic leader. We combine the Aghion-Tirole definition of formal and real authority with the Barro-Ferejohn model of political agency to study the...

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Size, Determinants, and Consequences of Corruption in China's Provinces: The MIMIC Approach

Chen, Hailin; Schneider, Friedrich; Sun, Qunli - 2018

This paper uses a multiple indicators and multiple causes (MIMIC) model and estimates the extent of corruption in 30 Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2015. Treating corruption as an unobserved latent variable, the MIMIC results show that both government size and public investment have significant...

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Who Lobbies Whom? Special Interests and Hired Guns

Ellis, Christopher J. - 2019

We model which special interest groups lobby which policymakers directly, and which employ for-profit intermediaries. We show that special interests affected by policy issues that frequently receive high political salience lobby policymakers directly, while those that rarely receive high...

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Centralised Labour Market Negotiations

Müller, Julia; Upmann, Thorsten - 2013

This paper contributes to the analysis of central vs. decentral (firm-level) labour market negotiations. We argue that during negotiations on a central scale employers and employees plausibly take output market effects into account, while they behave competitively during firm-level negotiations....

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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018

councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors …, such union-dominated councils experience greater strike activity than do their counterparts with minority union membership …, and also more strikes than establishments with union workplace representation where union members are in a minority …

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The Sources of the Union Wage Gap: The Role of Worker, Firm, Match, and Jobtitle Heterogeneity

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2018

Using matched employer-employee-contract data for Portugal – a country with near-universal union coverage – we find … evidence of a sizable effect of union affiliation on wages. Gelbach's (2016) decomposition procedure is next deployed to … ascertain the contributions of worker, firm, match, and job-title heterogeneity to the union wage gap. Of these the most …

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