How do civil servants in district water and sanitation departments address problems of water access in rural communities in Tanzania? What are the bureaucratic procedures they follow? How do the bureaucratic procedures around formulating budgets, managing money, and interacting with communities...

Who are the civil servants that serve poor people in the developing world? This paper uses direct surveys of civil servants-the professional body of administrators who manage government policy-and their organizations from Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, to...

In diesem Beitrag geben wir einen Überblick über die Beamten-Pensionsfonds der Länder in Deutschland. Die Fonds wurden zur Deckung künftiger Pensionszahlungen an die Beamten angelegt und unterscheiden sich in Konstruktion, Anlagestrategie und Volumen spürbar zwischen den Ländern. Wir gehen...

We study bank supervision by combining a theoretical model that distinguishes supervision from regulation and a novel dataset on work hours of Federal Reserve supervisors. We highlight the trade-offs between the benefits and costs of supervision and use the model to interpret the relationship...

Embezzlement is a major concern in various settings. By means of a sequential modified dictator game, we investigate theoretically and experimentally whether making information more transparent and reducing the number of intermediaries in transfer chains can reduce embezzlement and improve the...

In Portugal, Civil Servants may have a differential utilization of health services due to their supplementary Health Subsystem (ADSE), which grants them access to health services in the private sector at lower price. We exploit the impact of this double coverage on the demand for Portuguese...

We study bank supervision by combining a theoretical model that distinguishes supervision from regulation and a novel dataset on work hours of Federal Reserve supervisors. We highlight the trade-offs between the benefits and costs of supervision and use the model to interpret the relationship...

Im Fokus der Untersuchung stehen Ausmaß, Entwicklung und Struktur befristeter Beschäftigung im öffentlichen Dienst. Betrachtet werden zudem Befristungspraxis und Befristungsmotive öffentlicher Arbeitgeber. Die Privatwirtschaft und der gemeinnützige Dritte Sektor werden zur besseren...