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The Political Economy of Corruption and and the Role of Financial Institutions
Hainz, Christa; Boerner, Kira - 2005
In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even they have democratic political … corruption levels. Our model based on the fact that corrupt officials have to pay an entry fee to get lucrative positions. In a … probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead more corruption as more voters are part of the …
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Auctioning off a favour: corruption and lobbying in a combo model
Gerrits, Carsten; Beckmann, Klaus - 2010
It is the prevailing approach in the public choice literature to model lobbying and corruption in the same manner. On … view on corruption as in Besley (2006). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270146
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Government cloud computing and the policies of data sovereignty
Irion, Kristina - 2011
Government cloud services are a new development at the intersection of electronic government and cloud computing which holds the promise of rendering government service delivery more effective and efficient. Cloud services are virtual, dynamic and potentially stateless which has triggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307311
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Political (self-)selection and competition: Evidence from U.S. Congressional elections
Bose, Paul - 2021
How does competition affect the entry and selection of politicians? I use data on U.S. Congressional primary and general elections for the years 1998-2014 to study this question. I measure quality using previous legislative experience and the novel "identity match" quantifying how well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623123
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Democracy and institutional quality: Theory and Evidence
Krieger, Tommy - 2019
We present a simple model that illustrates how democracy may improve the quality of economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracy on institutional quality is increasing...
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Bureaucratic Identity and the Shape of Public Policy: A Game Theoretic Analysis
Naseer, Shaheen; Heine, Klaus - 2017
The paper proposes a theoretical framework to explain policy drift, when identity moderates the principle-agent relation between the legislator and the bureaucracy. Our model points to the subtle interaction between different administrative levels of bureaucracy and how this interaction shapes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712657
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Electoral cycles in savings bank lending
Stowasser, Till; Englmaier, Florian - 2013
We provide causal evidence that German savings banks where local politicians are by law involved in their management systematically adjust lending policies in response to local electoral cycles. The different timing of county elections across states and the existence of a control group of...
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Power Politics: Electoral Cycles in German Electricity Prices
Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Stowasser, Till; … - 2017
We provide evidence that German public energy providers, over which municipality-level politicians hold substantial sway, systematically adjust the pricing of electric energy in response to local electoral cycles. The documented pattern is in line with both, an artificial reduction in prices...
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Lobbyism in Germany: What do we know?
Polk, Andreas - 2017
Based on the two main channels of influence seeking, contribution payments and informational lobbying, we survey empirical studies about lobbying in Germany and discusses the available data and research approaches. Based on two novel data sets, we provide first insights towards further steps of...
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Elections and Government Efficiency
Dorn, Florian - 2023
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