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Transparency and policy competition : experimental evidence from German citizens and politicians

Blesse, Sebastian; Lergetporer, Philipp; Nover, Justus; … - 2023

A lack of transparency about policy performance can pose a major obstacle to welfare-enhancing policy competition across jurisdictions. In parallel surveys with German citizens and state parliamentarians, we document that both groups misperceive the performance of their state's education system....

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Civic engagement as a constraint on corruption

Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G.; Tabero, Katy; Tyran, … - 2024

Corruption is the great disease of government. It undermines the efficiency of the public sector in many countries around the world. We experimentally study civic engagement (CE) as a constraint on corruption when incentives are stacked against providing CE. We show that CE is powerful in...

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Elite capture, political voice and exclusion from aid : an experimental study

D'Exelle, Ben (contributor); Riedl, Arno (contributor) - 2008

We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...

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The (economic) effects of lay participation in courts : a cross-country analysis

Voigt, Stefan (contributor) - 2008

Legal philosophers like Montesquieu, Hegel and Tocqueville have argued that lay participation in judicial decision-making would have benefits reaching far beyond the realm of the legal system narrowly understood. From an economic point of view, lay participation in judicial decision-making can...

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Beyond Bentham : measuring procedural utility

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001

We propose that outcome utility and process utility can be distinguished and empirically measured. People gain procedural utility from participating in the political decision-making process itself, irrespective of the outcome. Nationals enjoy both outcome and process utility, while foreigners...

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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...

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The energy community and the grid

Gautier, Axel; Jacqmin, Julien; Poudou, Jean-Christophe - 2023

Renewable energy communities involve various agents who decide to jointly invest in renewable production units and storage. This paper examines how these communities interact with the energy system and can decrease its overall cost. First, we show that a renewable energy community can contribute...

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Digitization and community participation

Pocchiari, Martina; Roos, Jason M. T. - 2025 - This Version: July 2025

Digitization technologies reshape the way people engage in social and business activities, transitioning events from in-person to virtual formats. However, existing evidence on the effects of digitization on participation remains fragmented and contradictory. The authors address this gap by...

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The heterogeneous effect of digitizing community activities on community participation

Pocchiari, Martina; Roos, Jason M. T. - 2023

As social and business activities undergo significant digital transformation, the allure of digitized versus traditional in-person events remains a critical question. This study quantifies the heterogeneous effect of digitization on community participation across communities catering to...

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Regional productivity differences in the UK and France : from the micro to the macro

Kauma, Bridget; Mion, Giordano - 2024

We propose a new data resource that attempts to overcome limitations of standard firm-level datasets for the UK (like … the ARD/ABS) by building on administrative data covering the population of UK firms with at least one employee. We also … of the evolution of aggregate UK and French productivity and markups: 2) Analyse the spatial distribution of productivity …

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