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Sources of institutional innovation : an interpretive essay

Runge, Carlisle Ford - 1983

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003528193

Reforming an institutional culture of corruption : a model of motivated agents and collective reputation

Valasek, Justin - 2015

Recent empirical studies suggest that poor public sector performance in developing nations is due in part to the difficultly of selecting workers whose motivation is aligned with the mission of the institution -- in direct contrast to evidence from developed nations, public sector workers tend...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281179

Dynamic reform of public institutions : a model of motivated agents and collective reputation

Valasek, Justin - 2016 - Revised October 2016

State capacity is optimized when public institutions are staffed by individuals with public-service motivation. However, when motivated agents value the collective reputation of their place of employment, steady-state equilibria with both high and low aggregate motivation (reputation) in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011552475

Rationality and rule following in the old and new institutional economics

Rutherford, Malcolm - 1991

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000970204

Costly transfer institutions and the core in an overlapping generations model

Engineer, Merwan H.; Esteban Marquillas, Joan María; … - 1996

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The choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems : a survey of experimental research

Dannenberg, Astrid; Gallier, Carlo - 2019

A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the opportunity to influence the rules of the game before they...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010646

Democracy and the quality of economic institutions : theory and evidence

Krieger, Tommy - 2022

We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342090

Die Theorie der optimalen Währungsräume und die politische Reformfähigkeit - ein vernachlässigtes Kriterium

Heinemann, Friedrich - 1998

In this paper, a short survey is given on the contents and some problems of the theory of optimal currency areas. In … conventional theory is inspired by a phenomenon that can be observed for example in Germany but also in other European countries … the nominal exchange rate. The conventional theory with the focus on private agents' behaviour - e.g. in the context of …

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Die Psychologie irrationaler Wirtschaftspolitik am Beispiel des Reformstaus

Heinemann, Friedrich - 2000

Mainstream economists are reluctant to integrate features of bounded rationality into their behavioural assumptions. However, particularly in the field of economic policy the scope for irrational behaviour is given, since voters lack incentives for rational reasoning concerning their voting...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428315

Citizenship tests in five countries : an expression of political liberalism?

Michalowski, Ines - 2009

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