Effective policy implementation is foundational to development and depends crucially on a competent and committed bureaucracy. Bureaucratic failures can arise from both imperfect capabilities and incentive misalignment-dimensions of state capacity that often coexist and shape policy outcomes...

An important strand of research in macro-finance investigates which factors impede enterprise investment, and quantifies their aggregate cost. In this paper, we make two contributions to this literature. The first contribution is methodological: we introduce a novel framework to calibrate...

Auch wenn sich Baugenehmigungsverfahren von Fall zu Fall stark unterscheiden können, wird deren Länge und Komplexität von den Unternehmen vielfach als Belastung und Investitionshemmnis wahrgenommen. Neben den rechtlichen Grundlagen erweisen sich die Vorgehensweise der kommunalen Baubehörden...

We compare inequality and social mobility trends in European countries exposed to Soviet Communist (SC) regimes with those not exposed, using similar welfare mea-sures. We draw upon a rich retrospective dataset that collects relevant welfare measures across regimes, including information on...

We investigate the determinants of states' policy capacity, defined as the ability of states to craft effective policies. Our model shows that the interaction between politicians' implementation decisions and bureaucrats' motivation to design effective policies can lead to the coexistence of...

Unternehmen klagen seit langer Zeit über die mangelnde Verhältnismäßig- und Praxistauglichkeit vieler Regelungen und Vorschriften. Ein Grund hierfür ist, dass bei der Gesetzgebung und beim Bürokratieabbau die Erfahrungen der betroffenen Unternehmen bisher nur unzureichend berücksichtigt...

This study investigates how authentic leadership facilitates innovation within the bureaucratic structure of Indonesian State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), focusing on psychological empowerment as a mediating mechanism and leader personal power as a moderating factor. A cross-sectional survey was...

We investigate the determinants of states' policy capacity, defined as the ability of states to craft effective policies. Our model shows that the interaction between politicians' implementation decisions and bureaucrats' motivation to design effective policies can lead to the coexistence of...

Identifying what motivates public servants and how those motives vary across agencies is essential for both theory and practice, yet most existing "types of bureaucrats" remain untested against real workforces. Drawing on reputation theory, which posits that external audiences' beliefs shape who...

In Umsetzung des Koalitionsvertrages für die 21. Legislaturperiode wurde durch die Bundesministerin für Bildung, Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend, Karin Prien, am 17. Juli eine Kommission "Bürokratiearme Umsetzung der Entgelttransparenzrichtlinie" eingerichtet . Sie soll bis Ende Oktober...

We compare inequality and social mobility trends in Eastern European countries exposed to Soviet Communist (SC) regimes with those not exposed, using similar welfare measures. We draw upon a rich retrospective dataset that collects relevant welfare measures across regimes including information...

Poor implementation frequently impedes social protection delivery in low-state-capacity settings. In such environments, reducing managers' information acquisition costs may improve their grasp of frontline issues and program performance. However, in the presence of managerial rent-seeking,...

This study provides the first empirical assessment of the causal impact of bureaucratic corruption on firms' financial constraints in Nigeria by calculating treatment effects using linear and non-linear estimators to account for potential heterogeneous treatment effects across firm groups....

Die Strategie der globalen Beschaffung, z. B. das Erzielen von Wettbewerbsvorteilen durch Kostensenkung aufgrund von globalem Outsourcing der Wertschöpfungskette sowie global verteilten und fragmentierten Arbeitspaketen, wird im Kontext mehrerer wachsender globaler Krisen kritisch gesehen....

Organizational bureaucratic responsiveness, the readiness and ability of public organizations to respond to public needs, in particular in times of change, requires collaborations between public organizations and citizens and responsiveness to citizens' evolving needs. One of the organizational...