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Corruption, Intimidation, and Whistle-Blowing : A Theory of Inference from Unverifiable Reports

Chassang, Sylvain - 2014

possible to establish robust bounds on equilibrium corruption using only non-verifiable reports. Our analysis suggests a simple …

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Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule : A Model of Personal Rule

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan; Verdier, Thierry - 2021

Many developing countries have suffered under the personal rule of kleptocrats', who implement highly inefficient economic policies, expropriate the wealth of their citizens, and use the proceeds for their own glorification or consumption. We argue that the success of kleptocrats rests, in part,...

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Choosing Agents and Monitoring Consumption : a Note on Wealth as a Corruption-Controlling Device

Di Tella, Rafael - 2007

There are a large number of cases where corruption has been discovered investigating levels of consumption that appear … the principal. We argue that this assumption has to be revised in applications that study corruption. The informativeness … consumption with the aim of reducing corruption, and discuss features of the practical applications. We show that when there is …

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Selection and Oversight in the Public Sector, with the Los Angeles Police Department as an Example

Prendergast, Canice - 2021

I offer theoretical and empirical observations on the oversight of public sector employees. I argue that it is unreasonable to expect that the solutions typically considered in the literature will be effective with public sector employees, because bureaucrats are especially difficult to monitor....

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Testing the Theory of Multitasking : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment in Chinese Factories

Hong, Fuhai - 2013

tasks that produce unobservable outputs as they seek the salient rewards to observable outputs. Since the theory related to …

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Incentives, Information, and Organizational Design

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2021

This paper explores the interaction between incentives, information, and organizational design. It argues that the virtues of the market economy do not lie so much in the vision of competition and decentralization embodied in the Arrow-Debreu model, or the Lange-Lerner-Taylor analysis of market...

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The Ramsey Problem for Congestible Facilities

Arnott, Richard - 2010

In recent years, a new set of models drawing on Vickrey [1969] has been developed to analyze the economics of congestible facilities. These models are structural in that they derive the cost function from consumers' time-of-use decisions and the congestion technology. Standard models, in...

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On the Political Economy of Land Value Capitalization and Local Public Sector Rent-Seeking in a Tiebout Model

Gyourko, Joseph E. - 2012

In this paper we examine the political economy. of capitalization in a Tiebout model when there is a rent-seeking public bureaucracy. A new approach is suggested for testing for the influence of successful local public sector rent-seeking on local property values. We present empirical evidence...

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Tax Structure and Public Sector Growth

Feenberg, Daniel; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2022

It has been hypothesized that a jurisdiction's tax structure exerts an independent effect upon the growth of its public sector. We test this hypothesis by examining the relationship between the growth of state general expenditure and the elasticity of tax revenues with respect to income. The...

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Public Sector Union Growth and Bargaining Laws : a Proportional Hazards Approach with Time-Varying Treatments

Ichniowski, Casey - 2021

This study uses a Cox proportional hazards model to estimate ther elationship between state-level collective bargaining policies and union growth in the public sector. The proportional hazards analysisis performed with data on approximately eight hundred municipal police departments. The timing...

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