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Did Africa's first choices matter? Growth legacies of leaders at independence

Jørgensen, Christina Mangaard; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2015

We explore the potential effects of the first leaders of Sub-Saharan Africa. We first outline a set of theoretical reasons for why leaders may matter particularly at the critical juncture of African independence and why this influence may be persistent. In an unbalanced panel from 40 African...

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Colonial Heritage and Economic Development

Asoni, Andrea - 2014

While the importance of institutions for explaining cross-country income differences is widely recognized …, comparatively little is known about the origins of economic institutions. One strand of the literature emphasizes cultural … is presented in support of this selection process. The results suggest that any theory of colonial development that does …

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Protection of Property Rights and Growth as Political Equilibria

Asoni, Andrea - 2008

theoretical mechanisms that relate property rights to economic development. Lack of protection of property rights can result in …

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Economic Freedom and Economic Crisis

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2015

In this paper, I explore the politically contested association between the degree of capitalism, captured by measures of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crisis. After offering some brief theoretical considerations, I estimate the effects of economic freedom on...

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Privatization, Investment and Ownership Efficiency

Friberg, Richard; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2008

We provide a model that explains the following empirical observations: i) private ownership is more efficient than public ownership, ii) privatizations are associated with increases in efficiency and iii) the increase in efficiency predates the privatization. The two key mechanisms explaining...

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Will Privatization Reduce Costs?

Lindqvist, Erik - 2008

I develop a model of public sector contracting based on the multitask framework by Holmström and Milgrom (1991). In this model, an agent can put effort into increasing the quality of a service or reducing costs. Being residual claimants, private owners have stronger incentives to cut costs than...

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Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing

Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik - 2011

There are several theoretical accounts of public sector outsourcing. We note that leading theories give different predictions of the influence of political variables and test the predictions on a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies between municipalities and over time as well as between...

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Privatization of Credence Goods: Theory and an Application to Residential Youth Care

Lindqvist, Erik - 2008

A wide range of services provided by the public sector are credence goods, i.e., services for which the producer has private information whether a certain treatment is needed or not. This paper studies how ownership affects the incentives for producers to reveal such information to public...

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Outsourcing Public Services: Ownership, Competition, Quality and Contracting

Andersson, Fredrik; Jordahl, Henrik - 2011

We survey the literature on the effects of public sector outsourcing. Guided by theory, we systematically arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. Taken as a whole, the empirical literature indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces...

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Independent-school competition and Sweden's performance in TIMSS

Heller-Sahlgren, Gabriel - 2023

This paper analyses the effects of independent-school competition on Sweden's performance in TIMSS, an international low-stakes test in mathematics and science among students in year 8. Exploiting variation in independent-school enrolment shares across counties over time, it finds that...

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