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Power, scrutiny, and congressmen's favoritism for friends' firms

Do, Quoc-Anh; Lee, Yen Teik; Nguyen, Bang Dang; Nguyen, … - 2023

Does higher office always lead to more favoritism? We argue that firms may lose their benefit from a connected 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...

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The economics of politics : patronage and political selection in Italy

Quaresima, Federico; Fiorillo, Fabio - 2016

This article investigates the patronage phenomenon in the italian, so called, Second Republic. In particular, the …, where the interests of political parties and districts may diverge, the formers would need patronage resource to assure … parliamentarians' loyalty does play a role in patronage appointments as well as the electoral result in the next electoral competition. …

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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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(Dis)honest politicians and the value of transparency for campaign promises

Lang, Matthias; Schudy, Simeon - 2020

effects of opacity in a laboratory experiment and find that opacity leads to more generous promises, but also to more promise …

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Appointed public officials and local favoritism : evidence from the German States

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2017

We study the local favoritism of appointed German state ministers. Matching hand-collected data on ministers' place of residence to a sample of more than 8,000 west German municipalities during the period 1994-2013, we find that the home municipality of a state minister experiences higher...

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Political parties and network formation

Miettinen, Topi (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006

We argue that anticorruption laws may provide an efficiency rationale for why political parties should meddle in the distribution of political nominations and government contracts. Anticorruption laws forbid trade in spoils that politicians distribute. However, citizens may pay for gaining...

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The economics of politically connected firms

Choi, Jay Pil (contributor); Thum, Marcel (contributor) - 2007

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Growing groups, cooperation, and the rate of entry

Ranehill, Eva; Schneider, Frédéric; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014

We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying rates at which a group grows. Using a laboratory public-good game with voluntary contributions and economies of scale, we construct a situation in which expanding a group's size yields potential efficiency gains, but only if...

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Do leaders affect ethical conduct?

D'Adda, Giovanna; Darai, Donja; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014

environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment … behavior. Moreover, appointing leaders who are likely to have acted dishonestly in a preliminary stage of the experiment yields …

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Where to look for the morals in markets?

Sutter, Matthias; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2016

Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...

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