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Djumashev, Ratbek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In this paper, we analyze implications of corruption on growth. We extend existing growth models by incorporating … ubiquitous corruption as a by-product of the public sector. Corruption affects both taxation and public good provision, and … therefore causes income redistribution and inefficiencies in the public sector. These effects of corruption lead to lower growth …

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Pork Barrel Politics in Postwar Italy, 1953–1994

Picci, Lucio; Golden, Miriam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper analyzes the political determinants of the distribution of infrastructure expenditures by the Italian government to the country’s 92 provinces between 1953 and 1994. Extending implications of theories of legislative behavior to the context of open-list proportional representation,...

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Public Good Provision with Convex Costs

Senatore, L - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper considers a model of voluntary public good provision with two players and convex costs. I demonstrate that the provision of public good is higher in the sequential framework under fairly general conditions. This outcome shows that introducing convex costs may reverse under some...

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What Determines State Capture in Poland?

Alwasiak, Stanislaw; Lewandowska-Kalina, Monika; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In this paper we examine the determinants of ex-ante state capture analyzing all the legal acts that have been passed in the period 1990-2011 in Poland. We find that during this the majority of legal acts were passed with the aim to satisfy the interest of particular groups. Furthermore, the...

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Power Sector Reform: Some Lessons for Kerala

Pillai N., Vijayamohanan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Electric power is so vital to both our economic and personal wellbeing that the erstwhile state policy in most of the developing countries, including India, had vested the power industry in the hands of the state as a promotional agency for subsidized supply. However, with the onset of the...

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Price adjustment under the table: Evidence on efficiency-enhancing corruption

Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …

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Federalism, decentralisation and corruption

Freille, Sebastian; Haque, Mohammad Emranul; Kneller, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We investigate the empirical relationship between decentralisation and corruption. Using a newly assembled dataset … propose an approach aimed at exploring the aggregate effect of decentralization on corruption. In this context, we analyze the … existence of direct and indirect effects of these aspects on corruption. Our results suggest that fiscal (market …

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Municipal capitalism, regulatory federalism and politics

Boggio, Margherita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The phenomenon of municipal capitalism, which characterizes many local governments in Italy and Europe has been subject to many studies, but none have tried to model what this could imply for the choice of the optimal regulatory rule, nor for the vertical allocation of regulatory tasks among the...

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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

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Un Test sulle Ipotesi delle Proiezioni a medio-lungo termine della Spesa Sanitaria

Salerno, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The same methodology Oecd and Ecofin apply to project future trends of health care expenditue is here applied to reconstruct backwards Italian health care expenditure. The time horizon is 1988-2012. Results are described and argued. Important evidence emerges on the historical value of the...

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