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Government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with rent-seeking

Wadho, Waqar; Ayaz, Umair - 2017

We explore the relationship between government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with human capital and an unproductive capital which facilitates rent-seeking. With exogenous as well as endogenous time discounting, we find a non-monotonic relationship between the size of...

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Electoral competition as a determinant of fiscal decentralization

Jametti, Mario; Joanis, Marcelin - 2011

, the theory's main insight being that the central government's electoral strength should, all else being equal, decrease … decentralization ; fiscal federalism ; vertical interactions ; partial decentralization ; elections …

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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction

Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006

The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...

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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

Lüchinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021

The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g., pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317746

Evolving Federations and Regional Public Deficits : Testing the Bailout Hypothesis in the Spanish Case

Lago-Pentilde;as, Santiago - 2009

High debt autonomy and low tax autonomy often characterize evolving federations, making the bailout hypothesis very attractive in resolving subcentral government deficits. However, meeting both conditions is not enough to conclude that bailout expectations are the main reason for a potential...

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Habemus Papam? : polarization and conflict in the Papal States

Pino, Francisco; Vidal-Robert, Jordi - 2020

We study the effect of divisions within the elite on the probability of internal conflict in the Papal States between … the time of the election. We exploit this variation to analyze the causal effect of a divided conclave on conflict. We … find that an increase of one standard deviation in our measure of polarization raised the likelihood of internal conflict …

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Do Rent-Seeking and Interregional Transfers Contribute to Urban Primacy in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Behrens, Kristian - 2014

We develop an economic geography model in which mobile skilled workers choose between working in the production sector or becoming part of an unproductive political elite. The elite sets tax rates on skilled and unskilled workers to maximize its own welfare by extracting rents, thereby...

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Judges and Taxes : Judicial Review, Judicial Independence and the Size of Government

Tridimas, George - 2005

The study investigates how judicial review of policy and judicial independence affect the relative size of government. Judicial oversight of policy is the authority of courts to check the legality of policy measures and annul measures which are incompatible with the constitution or are enacted...

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Hierarchical team structures limit joint gain in interteam negotiations : the role of information elaboration and value-claiming behavior

Doyle, Sarah P.; Chung, Seunghoo; Lount, Robert B.; … - In: Academy of Management journal : AMJ 66 (2023) 5, pp. 1586-1616

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Leveraging knowledge diversity in hierarchically differentiated teams : the critical role of hierarchy stability

Gray, Steven M.; Bunderson, J. Stuart; Van der Vegt, … - In: Academy of Management journal : AMJ 66 (2023) 2, pp. 462-488

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