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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:49
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Review of Huerta de Soto´s `Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles´
van den Hauwe, Ludwig
E32 - Business Fluctuations ; Cycles
B53 - Austrian
P34 - Financial Economics
N23 - Europe: Pre-1913
G18 - Government Policy and Regulation
N24 - Europe: 1913-
E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
K39 - Other
E00 - General
E42 - Monetary Systems ; Standards ; Regimes ; Government and the Monetary System ; Payment Systems
G0 - General
K0 - General
P3 - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions
N2 - Financial Markets and Institutions
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
This article reviews the first English edition of Prof. Jesús Huerta de Soto´s book `Dinero, Crédito Bancario y Ciclos Económicos´ which first appeared in Spain in 1998.
2006-10-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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van den Hauwe, Ludwig (2006): Review of Huerta de Soto´s `Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles´. Forthcoming in: New Perspectives on Political Economy , Vol. 2, No. 2 (November 2006): pp. 135-141.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:120
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The Uneasy Case for Fractional-Reserve Free Banking
van den Hauwe, Ludwig
E50 - General
E32 - Business Fluctuations ; Cycles
E42 - Monetary Systems ; Standards ; Regimes ; Government and the Monetary System ; Payment Systems
B53 - Austrian
K39 - Other
G18 - Government Policy and Regulation
P34 - Financial Economics
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Since a few decades several sub-disciplines within economics have witnessed a reorientation towards institutional analysis. This development has in particular also affected the fields of macroeconomics and monetary theory where it has led to several proposals for far-reaching financial and monetary reform. One of the more successful of these proposals advocates a fractional-reserve free banking system, that is, a system with no central bank, but with permission for the banks to operate with a fractional reserve. This article exposes several conceptual flaws in this proposal. In particular several claims of the fractional-reserve free bankers with respect to the purported working characteristics of this system are criticized from the perspective of economic theory. In particular, the claim that a fractional-reserve free banking system would lead to the disappearance of the business cycle is recognized as false. Furthermore an invisible-hand analysis is performed, reinforcing the conclusion that fractional-reserve free banking is incompatible with the ethical and juridical principles underlying a free society.
2006-10-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/120/1/MPRA_paper_120.pdf
van den Hauwe, Ludwig (2006): The Uneasy Case for Fractional-Reserve Free Banking. Forthcoming in: Procesos de Mercado Revista Europea de Economía Política , Vol. III, No. 2 (December 2006)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:178
2019-09-27T13:38:35Z
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The Federal Approach to FiscalDecentralisation: Conceptual Contours for Policy Makers
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar
Z0 - General
H1 - Structure and Scope of Government
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
H8 - Miscellaneous Issues
H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
Chanchal Kumar Sharma,in his paper demonstrates that in order for fiscal decentralisation to be effective, it must be approached federally. A federal approach is not a decentralised approach but a dynamically balanced approach; one that constantly
keeps on adjusting the contrasting forces of centralisation and
decentralisation to create a system that can ensure good governance in
accordance with the rapidly changing global and local scenario.
According to the author, the good governance of the present time has to
be federally flexible and dynamically decentralised and institutions of
fiscal federalism are crucial for achieving such a dynamic equilibrium.
Fiscal decentralisation cannot be detached from the broader principles
of fiscal federalism if it is to be successful, irrespective of the fact of
whether it is being carried out in a federal or non-federal country. He
argues that too much decentralisation or an overly strong central federal
government precludes the survival of a constitutional federal state.
2003-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/178/1/MPRA_paper_178.pdf
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar (2003): The Federal Approach to FiscalDecentralisation: Conceptual Contours for Policy Makers. Published in: Loyola Journal of Social Sciences , Vol. Vol. (, No. No.(2) (December 2005): pp. 169-188.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:196
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Why Decentralization ? The Puzzle of causation
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar
Z0 - General
H1 - Structure and Scope of Government
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
H8 - Miscellaneous Issues
H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
Most countries especially the developing ones around the world are facing external as well as internal pressures to decentralize and are actually becoming part of the trend which if not universal is nonetheless the dominant trend. General causes include systemic forces like democratization and economic development; specifc causes however are different for different countries. In some countries the policies of opening up of economy and policies devised to deal with the challenges posed by new ‘globalized’ world are interacting with domestic political and economic institutions in such a way so as to create incentives for decentralization. In addition there is external pressure coming from IMF and WB who implicitly and explicitly have declared
‘decentralization’ as their most favoured policy prescription especially for the developing world.
2004-05-17
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Sharma, Chanchal Kumar (2004): Why Decentralization ? The Puzzle of causation. Published in: SYNTHESIS , Vol. Vol (3, No. NO (1) (December 2005): pp. 1-17.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:204
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Decentralization Dilemma: Measuring the Degree and Evaluating the Outcomes
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar
Z0 - General
H0 - General
H1 - Structure and Scope of Government
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
H8 - Miscellaneous Issues
H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
Though decentralization for past one and half decade or so has become the most favoured policy priority among the policy makers yet the countries around the world differ dramatically in the degree of decentralization that is accommodated. While diversity in degree of decentralization across the world is a fact yet there is no consensus in the empirical literature over the questions like ‘which country is more decentralized?’ This is because decentralization is defined and measured differently in different studies. In fact, a true assessment of the degree of decentralization in a country can be made only if a comprehensive approach is adopted and rather than trying to simplify the syndrome of characteristics into the single dimension of autonomy, interrelationships of various dimensions of decentralization are taken into account. Thus it is to be realized that there is no simple one dimensional, quantifiable index of degree of decentralization in a given country. As there is wide diversity in the studies on degree of decentralization so is the case with the literature on outcomes of it. Outcome varies not only because decentralization can appear in various forms and combinations across countries but also because different instruments may have very different effects in different ccircumstances. Thus arriving at the precise definition of decentralization and associating it with particular outcomes is neither possible nor desirable for the simple reason that generalization of any kind can create pitfalls that can obscure rather than clarify the facts. What is more important is the need for a strictly contextual yet comprehensive approach while going beyond the blunt measures like
expenditure decentralization and taking politics and institutional arrangements of the specific case under investigation also into account.
2004-07-26
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Sharma, Chanchal Kumar (2004): Decentralization Dilemma: Measuring the Degree and Evaluating the Outcomes. Published in: Indian Journal of Political Science , Vol. Vol. (, No. No. (1) (March 2006): pp. 49-64.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:250
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When Does decentralization deliver? The Dilemma of Design
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
H0 - General
H1 - Structure and Scope of Government
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H8 - Miscellaneous Issues
H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
Decentralization since early 1990s has become one of the buzzwords of the development paradigms. Among all ingredients of decentralization, the fiscal component of it has a special significance. Not surprisingly the literature unanimously recognizes that it is the regulation of intergovernmental relationships in the fiscal arena that can strike the right balance among different objectives of each level and resolve tensions between them. Thus, the fiscal decentralization is in vogue. The trend that began in 90s has only gained momentum at the turn of the century. Yet the outcome of adopting similar policies has not been uniform across the globe. Some have succeeded, some are stumbling and some others have failed. In fact, the success of decentralization depends on its design. The paper looks into various questions associated with the dilemma of designing decentralization instruments for the success of fiscal decentralization These include the question of designing the right mix of policies, the questions of sequencing and synchronization, the question of pace and that of balancing the contrasting forces of centralization and decentralization. The paper offers the insight to the policymakersthat while designing fiscal decentralization they should not try to replicate any ‘idealtype’ solution. Though the ideal types can be powerful analytical tools, yet they do not lead to solutions for specific situations Real world fiscal arrangements rarely follow the idealized model; they are loaded with historical developments and political ad hocsolutions. It is simply not realistic to start from tabula rasa. The paper emphasizes that there is no “one size fits all” type answer to decentralization question. All systems will have to work out their own style of going about decentralization and restructuring of intergovernmental relations depending on the context and conditions peculiar to their own situation. The paper also argues that any attempt towards fiscal decentralization must be firmly grounded in the basic principles of fiscal federalism, irrespective of the fact whether the country in question is an officially declared federal state or not. Thus while implementing decentralization policies, the need isto ‘bring the federal back in’.
2005-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Sharma, Chanchal Kumar (2005): When Does decentralization deliver? The Dilemma of Design. Published in: South Asian Journal of Socio-political studies (SAJOSPS) , Vol. Vol:6, No. No:1 (December 2005): pp. 38-45.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:393
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When Military Restrain the Rule: Philosophy and Indications
Ayub, Mehar
Ahsanuddin, Muhammad
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Z0 - General
It was concluded in the literature that military is merely a symptom of underlying political difficulties, a neutral force, which mechanically moves into the political area when a vacuum is created. Armed forces took control over the political management only in those economies where magnitude of military power was greater in relation with the size of economy: a higher defense expenditure to GDP ratio lead the control of political management by armed forces.
2001
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Ayub, Mehar and Ahsanuddin, Muhammad (2001): When Military Restrain the Rule: Philosophy and Indications. Published in: Journal of Management and Social Sciences , Vol. 2, No. 1 (April 2006): pp. 49-54.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1334
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To be or not to be in the euro? Benefits and costs of monetary unification as perceived by voters in the Swedish euro referendum 2003
Jonung, Lars
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
F15 - Economic Integration
F33 - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions
E60 - General
The Swedish referendum in September 2003 on adopting the euro or keeping the domestic currency, the krona, represents a unique event to examine the public’s perceptions of the benefits and costs of monetary unification. The voters chose between the two polar cases of exchange rate regimes: either a freely floating exchange rate or membership in a monetary union. Three major conclusions emerge from the analysis of the exit poll surveys gathered on the day of the referendum. First, the optimum currency area theory proves to be a constructive framework to predict voting behaviour across socio-economic groups and regions in Sweden, assuming voters behave in their self-interest. Second, the distribution of the expected benefits and costs across groups was a major determinant of their voting behavior. As predicted by theory, the Yes-vote was strongest among voters employed in the tradable sector, in high growth regions as well as among high-income earners and well educated. The No-vote was strongest among voters employed in the non-tradable sector, in particular in the public sector, and among low-income earners, the unemployed and the less educated – in short, among groups dependent on public-sector transfers to maintain their living standards in the event of adverse economic shocks. Third, political attitudes towards the European integration process heavily influenced the views of the voters towards the euro.
2004-06-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1334/1/MPRA_paper_1334.pdf
Jonung, Lars (2004): To be or not to be in the euro? Benefits and costs of monetary unification as perceived by voters in the Swedish euro referendum 2003. Published in: The Cato Journal , Vol. 24, No. numbers 1-2 (2004): pp. 123-149.
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La Simplicidad de los Sistemas Tributarios: El Caso de Chile.
Barra, Patricio
H20 - General
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the concept of the simplicity in a tax system. The analysis approaches the different scopes in which the tax simplicity is observed. For this purpose, the main aspects of the Chilean tax system are analyzed, by using indicators that try to define the concept in a quantitative frame. The analysis of the Chilean case is used to infer some implications that could also be valid in other Latin American tax systems.
2006-05-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1586/1/MPRA_paper_1586.pdf
Barra, Patricio (2006): La Simplicidad de los Sistemas Tributarios: El Caso de Chile.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2254
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On redistribution effects of public debt amongst single-minded generations
Canegrati, Emanuele
J20 - General
H63 - Debt ; Debt Management ; Sovereign Debt
D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
J26 - Retirement ; Retirement Policies
H21 - Efficiency ; Optimal Taxation
H55 - Social Security and Public Pensions
D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
J18 - Public Policy
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
J14 - Economics of the Elderly ; Economics of the Handicapped ; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
D64 - Altruism ; Philanthropy
H60 - General
D71 - Social Choice ; Clubs ; Committees ; Associations
D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
H23 - Externalities ; Redistributive Effects ; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
In this paper I will introduce a new political economy model,
where there exists a competition amongst two political candidates,
which aim to set a policy which enables them to win elections, max-
imising the probability of winning. I will show that, if taxes neces-
sary to repay the debt are not lump sum but proportional to income,
we have dramatic distorting effect on the labour supply. The prob-
lem is exacerbate once we take into account that the Government
set taxes in order to favour the most in‡uencing social group. As a
consequence, effective marginal tax rates are differentiated amongst
social groups and thus the burden of public debt is not equally borne.
2007-03-14
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Canegrati, Emanuele (2007): On redistribution effects of public debt amongst single-minded generations.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2308
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El Instituto de Desarrollo Agrario (IDA), el desarrollo productivo y el bienestar social en el medio rural de Costa Rica. análisis evaluativo sobre el cumplimiento de sus objetivos y funciones.
Mora-Alfaro, Jorge
I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
Q1 - Agriculture
H1 - Structure and Scope of Government
Q18 - Agricultural Policy ; Food Policy
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
Q16 - R&D ; Agricultural Technology ; Biofuels ; Agricultural Extension Services
In this document is presented the main results obtained with the research, about the objective and functions achievement of the Development Agrarian Institute of Costa Rica. This institution was created in 1961, with the name of National Institute of Lands and Colonization (ITCO). In the 80’s decade its name and functions was modified and received the actual name. The agrarian policies and the institutional work, mostly in the land redistributions actions, play and important role in the rural areas transformation and in the economic and social stability of this country, in contrast with the neighbors Central American nations. During the 80’s decade the rural institutions suffered a relevant reduction in their personal number and in their budgets. This situation affects their capacity to achieve the objectives and functions assigned by the law frame. In the IDA case, besides, some corruptions scandals, contribute to decline its public image and its political capacity level. The study concludes with some institutional transformations recommendations, in order to strength its impact in the rural areas and in the rural territorial development strategies that are necessaries to poverty alleviation and to increase the welfare in the Costa Rican rural territories.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Mora-Alfaro, Jorge (2006): El Instituto de Desarrollo Agrario (IDA), el desarrollo productivo y el bienestar social en el medio rural de Costa Rica. análisis evaluativo sobre el cumplimiento de sus objetivos y funciones.
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A Single-Mindedness model with n generations
Emanuele, Canegrati
H50 - General
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
H61 - Budget ; Budget Systems
D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
I38 - Government Policy ; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H55 - Social Security and Public Pensions
D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
H24 - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
J13 - Fertility ; Family Planning ; Child Care ; Children ; Youth
D11 - Consumer Economics: Theory
D30 - General
C72 - Noncooperative Games
H53 - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
H23 - Externalities ; Redistributive Effects ; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
J26 - Retirement ; Retirement Policies
D71 - Social Choice ; Clubs ; Committees ; Associations
H31 - Household
J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor
H60 - General
J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
In this paper I will analyse the redistribution of income amongst n
generations using the Single-mindedness Theory. I will introduce a new
expression for the balanced-budget constraint, no longer based on lump-
sum transfers as in the traditional literature, but rather on more realistic
labour income taxation. Since the Government has to clear the budget,
some generations obtain a benefit, whilst some other must pay the entire
cost of social secutiry systems. I will demonstrate that generations which
are more single-minded on leisure are the most better off since they are
more able to capture politicians in the political competition. Further-
more, it could be the case that candidates are not forced to undertake the
same policies in equilibrium and I will demonstrate that this result holds
only once an endogenous density function for individual preferences for
politicians is considered.
2007-04
MPRA Paper
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2548/1/MPRA_paper_2548.pdf
Emanuele, Canegrati (2007): A Single-Mindedness model with n generations.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3064
2019-09-28T04:30:12Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3064/
Contributo para o estudo económico dos indicadores regionais
Mourao, Paulo
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
R13 - General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economies
R15 - Econometric and Input-Output Models ; Other Models
What is an indicator? Seemingly, the solution is so
clear that it can deceive us, economists and other
social scientists. This work aims at enlightening the
answer to the suggested question, discussing the
methodological dimensions of the economic indicators
– since the phase of production until the phase of
readings, highlighting the context of the regional
economic indicators.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3064/1/MPRA_paper_3064.pdf
Mourao, Paulo (2006): Contributo para o estudo económico dos indicadores regionais. Published in: Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais No. 12 (2006): pp. 77-92.
pt
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3416
2019-09-27T20:40:10Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3416/
Abordagens da despesa pública nos últimos vinte anos
Mourao, Paulo
Rodrigues, Carlos
H50 - General
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
This paper synthesises some of the (New) Public Expenditures Theories. It also focuses on the Fiscal Adjustments theme. We analysed public expenditures evolution in a sample composed by seventeen OCDE countries observed between 1870 and 1990. Our conclusion recognizes the heterogeneity of the most recent Public Expenditure Theories and the different growth rates assumed by the evaluated outlays.
2007-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3416/1/MPRA_paper_3416.pdf
Mourao, Paulo and Rodrigues, Carlos (2007): Abordagens da despesa pública nos últimos vinte anos. Published in: Revista Tributária e de Finanças Públicas No. 72 (January 2007): pp. 271-280.
pt
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3555
2019-10-03T04:50:02Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3555/
Coordination et décentralisation des règles budgétaires dans une structure fédéraliste: Le cas des cantons suisses
Soguel, Nils
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Summary
The coordination of fiscal policies between states or municipalities collides with their individual spending and taxing power. When independently adopted, budget rules can potentially endanger the overall need for macroeconomic stabilisation. Utilising the example of the Swiss cantons, the paper analyses the possibility to bring out a counter-cyclical policy when sublevel governments introduce compelling rules to balance or almost balance their budget. It is shown that cantons usually adopt a pro-cyclical behaviour. However this behaviour can be thwarted if the central government uses the vertical intergovernmental transfers as an instrument of its stabilisation policy.
2005-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3555/1/MPRA_paper_3555.pdf
Soguel, Nils (2005): Coordination et décentralisation des règles budgétaires dans une structure fédéraliste: Le cas des cantons suisses. Published in: Revue d'Economie Régionale & Urbaine No. Nr 1 (August 2006): pp. 27-48.
fr
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3559
2019-09-27T23:23:01Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4837:483737
7375626A656374733D44:4437:443732
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3559/
Choosing Electoral Rules in the Presence of Corruption
Tavares, Samia
D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Corruption is a problem that has been shown to adversely affect a country’s development. Recent studies have shown that a country’s electoral system can affect its corruption level. But if that is the case, then electoral rules could be chosen to maximize opportunities for corruption. This paper uses the recent wave of democratization and the resulting writing of new constitutions, which entailed in many cases the adoption of a new electoral system, to analyze the choice of electoral rules. Results suggest that more corrupt countries are more likely to adopt a plurality system than less corrupt ones.
2007-02-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3559/1/MPRA_paper_3559.pdf
Tavares, Samia (2007): Choosing Electoral Rules in the Presence of Corruption.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3560
2019-09-27T12:23:49Z
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7375626A656374733D4B:4B33:4B3339
7375626A656374733D44:4437:443733
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7375626A656374733D4B:4B34:4B3432
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3560/
Do Freedom of Information Laws Decrease Corruption?
Tavares, Samia
K39 - Other
D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption
D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
It has been argued that greater transparency is needed to reduce corruption. One way of increasing transparency is through the adoption of Freedom of Information (FOI) laws. This paper uses the introduction of FOI laws as a natural experiment to determine their effect on corruption. Using a sample of democratic countries and two different corruption indices, I find that countries that adopted FOI laws saw an increase in corruption. Results are robust throughout different specifications. Moreover, I find that countries with plurality systems potentially experienced a decrease in corruption following the adoption of FOI legislation. Having a parliamentary system, however, had no impact on the effect of the reform.
2007-05-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3560/1/MPRA_paper_3560.pdf
Tavares, Samia (2007): Do Freedom of Information Laws Decrease Corruption?
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4243
2019-10-04T19:29:18Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4833
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4243/
How To Win A General Election By A Landslide Victory
Jones, Peter
H3 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Some political parties have become victims of high technology politics; especially those in Latin America and the Caribbean who continue to practice limited database thinking.
Those who have continued to practice political rule by thuggarism have found themselves behind the political curve of win ability, as the short–termism of this policy lacks sustainability beyond a year.
The politics of the end of 20th century and now that of the 21st century has been seriously influenced by Globalization and its intrinsic facets of economic and financial marginalization and or redefinition of power.
Many worldwide have used these high technology political strategies to maintain power and retain power when elections have been called.
Those who live in the realm of Democratic idiocy will never hold the reigns of power, merely tasting it from time to time as the election political wind blows but never really harnessing its effective power.
A good political platform speech is of importance. However, a good platform speech with strong subliminal suggestion and content and intention can never be duplicated. Some have this gift, some learn it while others never quite get there and automatically become a victim of the social, economic and political whirlwind of the New Global Informational Politics which is being used to manipulate uneducated , low educated or poorly educated voting populations worldwide.
2006-08-19
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4243/1/MPRA_paper_4243.pdf
Jones, Peter (2006): How To Win A General Election By A Landslide Victory.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4436
2019-10-01T16:56:42Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4831:483131
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4436/
L’evoluzione dei patti sociali in una prospettiva analitica
Acocella, Nicola
Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni
Papa, Stefano
J08 - Labor Economics Policies
H23 - Externalities ; Redistributive Effects ; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
J58 - Public Policy
H20 - General
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
J5 - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining
In this paper we revisit the case for corporatist agreements in a model where labor markets are unionized, the government controls the fiscal stance, and an independent central bank sets monetary policy. We can then analyze the scope for a political exchange between public expenditure and wage setting choices, showing that corporatism may generate quite different macroeconomic outcomes from the traditional exchange between wage restraint and high public expenditure. In fact our model can easily encompass both first and second-generation corporatist agreements.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4436/1/MPRA_paper_4436.pdf
Acocella, Nicola and Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni and Papa, Stefano (2006): L’evoluzione dei patti sociali in una prospettiva analitica.
it
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5091
2020-03-13T04:14:51Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6988
2019-09-27T16:35:54Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6988/
Bargaining in the Appointment Process, Constrained Delegation and the Political Weight of the Senate
Semenov, Aggey
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design
The President and the Senate bargain over the appointment of the Head of a key government department. The operating unit of the department has private information about its operating environment. We model the appointment process as a constrained delegation of policymaking to the operating unit (agency). When the Senate is sufficiently close to the agency the President has to give the agency more authority. On the other hand, given the Senate's ideal point, when the information is more precise the President can tighten delegation bounds.
2008-02-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6988/1/MPRA_paper_6988.pdf
Semenov, Aggey (2008): Bargaining in the Appointment Process, Constrained Delegation and the Political Weight of the Senate.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:7003
2019-09-28T16:49:56Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7003/
Rules of the Game and Rules Inside the Game: a Complex Framework of European Development Policies
Garofalo, Maria Rosaria
Senatore, Luigi
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy
Following the transaction-costs politics (TCP) approach (Dixit 1996), this paper tries to spell out the making of that development policy, as prevailing in the Objective 1 area in Europe from 1999, based on decentralization and multilevel governance, and essentially implied from the success of endogenous growth paradigm. The TCP approach allows for the explanation of both the genesis and evolution of a policy in real time, by considering (i) the policy-making as a set of general rules and of individual intervention actions, and (ii) this set in the same way of incomplete, flexible and dynamic contracts (Williamson 1985). In this theoretical context we reconsider the underlying innovative notion of decentralization, that consists in a devolution process of political power to
local agents and their communities, by promoting local partnership rather than a mere
administrative delegation of function from central to local level (Bardhan 1996). The outcome
(success or failure) of this development policy approach is strictly connected either with new frame
of governance rules or with their feasible "use": this means that a rules scheme would be not neutral
with respect to objectives choices (Stiglitz 2001). In short, we refer to the agency model in order to
explain either the enforcement process of rules or local implementation of specific development policies and measures. Finally the outcome policy will be not predetermined, but it will depend from how the agents (formal, informal, individual, groups, organisations) interact inside a community, that benefits by the set of development measures (complementarity) (Aoki 2001;Ray
2000).
2002
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7003/1/MPRA_paper_7003.pdf
Garofalo, Maria Rosaria and Senatore, Luigi (2002): Rules of the Game and Rules Inside the Game: a Complex Framework of European Development Policies.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:7392
2017-12-22T04:07:07Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8364
2019-10-05T22:55:20Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8364/
Law and Institutions: two reasons for Sicilian backwardness?
Consoli, Andrea
Spagano, Salvatore
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Many reasons for the low level of local development in Sicily have been advanced through the years, often connected to historical and geographical explanations. More frequently the reasons of the backwardness (better low rate of development) is connected to high level of crime and of mafia phenomenon, or to structural grounds (first of all, Sicily is an island) and intra regional markets’ dimensions. Little space, instead, has been devoted to institutions and law and to the effectiveness of legislative self-government. In ours paper we will slight the constitutional profile trying, instead, to answer, with the typical approach of the economic analysis if is it possible that some reasons of the backwardness of Sicilian economic development are hidden just in this constitutional diversity of Sicily.
2008-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8364/1/MPRA_paper_8364.pdf
Consoli, Andrea and Spagano, Salvatore (2008): Law and Institutions: two reasons for Sicilian backwardness?
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8521
2019-10-05T05:26:05Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8521/
Bargaining in the Appointment Process, Constrained Delegation and the Political Weight of the Senate
Semenov, Aggey
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design
The President and the Senate bargain over the appointment of the Head of a key government department. The operating unit of the department has private information about its operating environment. We model the appointment process as a constrained delegation of policymaking to the operating unit (agency). When the Senate is sufficiently close to the agency the President has to give the agency more authority. On the other hand, given the Senate's ideal point, when the information is more precise the President can tighten delegation bounds.
2008-03-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8521/1/MPRA_paper_8521.pdf
Semenov, Aggey (2008): Bargaining in the Appointment Process, Constrained Delegation and the Political Weight of the Senate. Forthcoming in: Public Choice
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8529
2017-12-22T09:23:23Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8531
2013-04-23T18:24:35Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8594
2019-09-26T15:14:04Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8594/
The Incentive Role of Creating "Cities" in China
Li, Lixing
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
O40 - General
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
P26 - Political Economy ; Property Rights
This paper examines a distinctive mechanism of providing incentives to local governments – upgrading counties to "cities". In China, awarding city status to existing counties is the dominant way of creating new urban administrative units, during which the local government gets many benefits. Using a large panel data set covering all counties in China during 1993-2004, I investigate the determinants of upgrading. I find that the official minimum requirements for upgrading are not enforced in practice. Instead, economic growth rate plays a key role in obtaining city status. An empirical test is then conducted to distinguish between a principal-agent incentive mechanism and political bargaining. The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the central government uses upgrading to reward local officials for high growth, as well as aligning local interests with those of the center. This paper highlights the importance of both fiscal and political incentives facing the local government. The comparison between incentive mechanism and bargaining sheds light on an important question about China’s politics of governance: where does power lie in China?
2008-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8594/1/MPRA_paper_8594.pdf
Li, Lixing (2008): The Incentive Role of Creating "Cities" in China.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8735
2019-10-05T16:58:34Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8735/
Flip-Flopping: Ideological Adjustment Costs in the United States Senate
DeBacker, Jason
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
C01 - Econometrics
Models of electoral competition in which candidates can change position at no cost
predict the convergence of platforms in a two-candidate election. Such convergence
is at odds with empirical observation. In this paper, I undertake a study of candidate
positioning in the United States Senate and determine the extent to which electoral costs
associated with changing position explain the ideological positions taken by Senators.
Using over 50 years of roll call voting data, I use a simulated method of moments
approach to estimate a dynamic model of candidate positioning for U.S. Senators. The
findings support a model in which Senators face convex costs to changing position,
with the best fitting model being one with linear costs of adjustment. The model thus
predicts severe punishments for “flip-flopping” Senators (those who make large changes
in position). As a result of the significant costs associated with adjusting position, the
empirical validity of the Median Voter Theorem (which depends upon candidates being
able to change position at no cost) is called into question.
2008-04-24
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8735/1/MPRA_paper_8735.pdf
DeBacker, Jason (2008): Flip-Flopping: Ideological Adjustment Costs in the United States Senate.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8933
2019-10-02T04:45:19Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8933/
Autocratic rule in ethnically-diverse societies
Amegashie, J. Atsu
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
P16 - Political Economy
Richer and more educated citizens demand better governance than poorer citizens. They participate more in the political process, are more difficult to buy off, and tend to have the financial resources to support a revolt. An autocrat who is politically insecure may therefore not invest in income-enhancing goods like education, roads, the rule of law, etc. This argument is not new. The novelty of this paper is to argue that ethnic diversity and discrimination exacerbate an autocrat’s fear of the negative effect of high income or income-enhancing investments like public education on his political survival. The combination of ethnic diversity and the fear of survival results in low economic performance in ethnically-diverse autocracies. I show that under such circumstances, the proportion of national income that the autocrat appropriates to himself is increasing in the degree of ethnic diversity. An implication is that in such ethnically-diverse societies, kleptocrats may be better off with a bigger share of a smaller national income than they are with a smaller share of a bigger national income. Previous empirical work provides some support for my theory. I discuss applications and limitations of my results.
2008-06-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8933/1/MPRA_paper_8933.pdf
Amegashie, J. Atsu (2008): Autocratic rule in ethnically-diverse societies.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9292
2019-10-01T10:23:09Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9292/
State of Governance in Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects.
Ahmad, Sayed Javed
A39 - Other
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
J18 - Public Policy
Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)
D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption
O2 - Development Planning and Policy
D02 - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
R5 - Regional Government Analysis
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
F5 - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy
G38 - Government Policy and Regulation
D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
I28 - Government Policy
This paper discusses the problems and issues on the political failures in Bangladesh as well as identifies some possible solutions. The approach here is analytical mostly reviewing current news, reports and other related materials. A comparative study is also done between the present and proposed system to get a quick glimpse on the overall situation. The idea here is to seek out reasonable and practical solutions that would yield better result for Bangladesh and bring about positive changes in the political scenario that would allow the country to move forward as a successful and dignified nation. I’ve kept the scope of this paper limited to political party, elections and governance.
2008
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9292/1/MPRA_paper_9292.pdf
Ahmad, Sayed Javed (2008): State of Governance in Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9293
2019-09-30T16:36:11Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9293/
The Health Care Crisis in the United States: The Issues and Proposed Solutions by the 2008 Presidential Candidates
Pareto, Marcos Pompeu
I11 - Analysis of Health Care Markets
H51 - Government Expenditures and Health
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health
D43 - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
I10 - General
The United States has state of the art technology and world renowned expertise in medical treatment, yet in terms of healthcare it shows a dramatically poor performance in relation to the other industrialized countries. This situation is surprising, since one would expect that a free market system run almost entirely by the private sector should show a much better performance.
This issue has reached the point of being one of the most important national concerns and the subject of serious political and economic arguments - not only regarding how the system should be improved, but also whether it should remain being run by the private sector under a free market approach or whether it should be run by the government and made accessible to the entire population. The first option is supported by the arguments that public initiatives often perform poorly and that free-market competition should prevail. Contrarily, the other side claims that the system is only nominally a free market, that empirical evidence shows it's not working as it should, and that other successful healthcare systems are mostly government operated.
As is stands, the health care issue acquired national importance and is presented as a major component of both presidential candidates programs, yet each favoring a different approach to improve accessibility and lower healthcare costs. Republican Senator McCain relies on improving the system by maintaining its current private enterprise, free market characteristics, while Democratic Senator Barrack Obama favours providing universal coverage and lower costs through a higher government intervention in the system. This paper examines the approaches proposed by both candidates and analyses the potential impact their plans may have on the health care system. While the lack of more detailed implementation details makes difficult accessing the effective result of each policy, the comparative review of the alternative approaches presented in this paper will help the reader to to judge for him or herself which could be the more appropriate to upgrade the system and attain a higher performance level.
2008-06-18
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9293/1/MPRA_paper_9293.pdf
Pareto, Marcos Pompeu (2008): The Health Care Crisis in the United States: The Issues and Proposed Solutions by the 2008 Presidential Candidates.
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Is State Building the Road to World Order?
Garzarelli, Giampaolo
Thomassen, Bjørn
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
O10 - General
F59 - Other
D02 - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
P48 - Political Economy ; Legal Institutions ; Property Rights ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Regional Studies
We summarize Francis Fukuyama’s State Building: Governance and World Order in the Twenty-first Century (London, Profile Books, 2005)and explore the limits of its arguments. State Building is a book with a very wide scope that essentially tries to “ground” and expand the fields of political science and international relations with insights from the New Institutional Economics. We suggest that doubts remain concerning the theoretical framework proposed and that many links between theory and a series of substantive claims are left unarticulated; this raises the possibility that the book’s policy recommendations are unwarranted.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9600/1/MPRA_paper_9600.pdf
Garzarelli, Giampaolo and Thomassen, Bjørn (2006): Is State Building the Road to World Order? Published in: Prometheus , Vol. 24, No. 2 (June 2006): pp. 312-322.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9707
2019-09-30T17:01:13Z
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Budgetary Dynamics in The Local Authorities in Israel
Navon, Guy
E62 - Fiscal Policy
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
H6 - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt
This study examines the short-run effects and dynamics of exogenous shocks to the regular budgets of the local authorities in Israel with emphasis on the reduction in government participation and taking into account the heterogeneity of the local authorities. To accomplish this, the study uses a panel of 193 local authorities for the years 1996–2002 and estimates a dynamic model for the components of the regular budget. This makes it possible to examine the dynamics of fiscal adjustment in response to changes in the size of the deficit and in the components of the budget. The changes in revenue from municipal taxes and other independent revenues, expenditure and participation and equalization grants were estimated by means of a Vector Error Correction model. The main findings are as follows: (a) Exogenous changes in the components of the budget, such as a reduction in government grants, affect the level of the per capita deficit in the short run but following that the deficit converges to its original level. (b) A reduction in government grants leads to an immediate cutback in services to residents and increased deficits. (c) The process of adjustment in the non-Jewish local authorities is twice as long as that in the Jewish ones. Therefore, the reduction in grants leads to an increase in deficits for a longer period in non-Jewish local authorities. (d) The process of budgetary adjustment differs among local authorities according to socioeconomic ranking. The weakest local authorities (clusters 1-3) and the strongest local authorities (clusters 8-10) respond to a change in the deficit primarily by reducing labor costs while the development town local authorities cut back their services to residents.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9707/1/MPRA_paper_9707.pdf
Navon, Guy (2006): Budgetary Dynamics in The Local Authorities in Israel. Published in: Israel Economic Review , Vol. 2, No. 4 (2006): pp. 19-52.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9740
2019-10-04T05:10:56Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9740/
Finantarea autoritatilor locale in Romania
Mutascu, Mihai
Lobont, Oana
Crasneac, Alexandru Ocatavian
Nicolescu, Cristina
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H71 - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
This paper is trying to establish, in Romania, at macroeconomic level, quantitative and qualitative, relations between gross domestic product and governmental and local revenues.
2008-04-30
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9740/1/MPRA_paper_9740.pdf
Mutascu, Mihai and Lobont, Oana and Crasneac, Alexandru Ocatavian and Nicolescu, Cristina (2008): Finantarea autoritatilor locale in Romania. Published in: State, possibilities and perspective of rural developement on area of huge open-pit minings , Vol. Intern, (24 April 2008): pp. 72-78.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9741
2019-09-30T21:57:46Z
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Politica fiscala si output-urile sociale: cazul U.E.
Talpos, Ioan
Dima, Bogdan
Mutascu, Mihai
Enache, Cosmin
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H30 - General
I00 - General
The aim of this paper is to emphasize how the correlations between fiscal policy and economic growth are manifesting in the U.E. case. After theoretical framework, the paper is organized as follows: Section 2 tries to provide a model at micro economic level for the interconnections between fiscal policy and economic growth and Section 3 looks for same empirical evidences for the EU 25 case. Finally, some conclusions are drawn and some limits of the proposed analysis are derived in Section 4.
2008-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9741/1/MPRA_paper_9741.pdf
Talpos, Ioan and Dima, Bogdan and Mutascu, Mihai and Enache, Cosmin (2008): Politica fiscala si output-urile sociale: cazul U.E.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9760
2019-09-29T01:04:33Z
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Towards a Fiscal Illusion Index
Mourão, Paulo
E62 - Fiscal Policy
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
C82 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data ; Data Access
H30 - General
This paper presents an index of Fiscal Illusion for 68 democratic countries from 1960 to 2006. The studied Fiscal Illusion is the one related to a wrong perception of the budget aggregates according to the voters and taxpayers’ perspectives. In the construction of the index, methodological issues were carefully taken into account. The results obtained reveal that fiscal illusion varies greatly around the world. Countries such as Mali, Pakistan, Russia and Sri Lanka have the highest average values over the time period considered; while Austria, Luxembourg, Netherlands and New Zealand have the lowest. Regarding the time dimension, between 1980 and 1995 there was a significant decrease in the average value of the index across countries, suggesting a reduction in the adoption of fiscal illusion measures during this period. After 1995, the index remained stable in most of the countries.
2007-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9760/1/MPRA_paper_9760.pdf
Mourão, Paulo (2007): Towards a Fiscal Illusion Index.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9767
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2019-10-26T07:07:37Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10539
2019-09-26T21:19:23Z
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The more the merrier? Number of bidders, information dispersion, renegotiation and winner’s curse in toll road concessions
Athias, Laure
Nunez, Antonio
H57 - Procurement
H54 - Infrastructures ; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
L51 - Economics of Regulation
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
D44 - Auctions
D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design
We empirically assess the winner’s curse effect in auctions for toll road concessions. First, we investigate the overall winner’s curse effects on bidding behaviour. Second, we account for differing levels of common-value components. Third, we investigate whether the possibility of renegotiation affects the winner’s curse effect. Using a unique dataset of 49 concessions, we show that the winner’s curse effect is particularly strong, i.e. bidders bid less aggressively when they expect more competition. In addition, we observe that this effect is larger for projects where the common uncertainty is greater, and is dampened in weaker institutional frameworks, in which renegotiations are easier.
2008-04-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10539/1/MPRA_paper_10539.pdf
Athias, Laure and Nunez, Antonio (2008): The more the merrier? Number of bidders, information dispersion, renegotiation and winner’s curse in toll road concessions.
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Contractual flexibility or rigidity for public private partnerships? Theory and evidence from infrastructure concession contracts
Athias, Laure
Saussier, Stéphane
H54 - Infrastructures ; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
D23 - Organizational Behavior ; Transaction Costs ; Property Rights
L14 - Transactional Relationships ; Contracts and Reputation ; Networks
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
L90 - General
D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design
L24 - Contracting Out ; Joint Ventures ; Technology Licensing
In this article, we explore the contractual design of toll infrastructure concession contracts. We highlight the fact that the contracting parties try to sign not only complete rigid contracts in order to avoid renegotiations but also flexible contracts in order to adapt contractual framework to unanticipated contingencies and to create incentives for cooperative behavior. This gives rise to multiple toll adjustment provisions and to a tradeoff between rigid and flexible contracts. Such tradeoff is formalized with an incomplete contract framework, including ex post maladaptation and renegotiation costs. Our model highlights the fact that trade-offs are complex and do not correspond to previous propositions coming from a transaction cost framework. More precisely, those previous works argue that a rigid contract is to be preferred as soon as specific assets are high. We highlight the fact that this proposition may be true, but only if other conditions concerning maladaptation costs, renegotiation costs and the probability to see the contract enforced are met. Furthermore, our results stress the fact that the institutional environment in which the contract is embedded matters. Propositions are tested using an original database of 71 concession contracts. Our results suggest an important role for economic efficiency concerns, as well as politics, in designing toll road concession contracts. In this perspective, our work complements other empirical studies on contractual price provisions (Masten-Crocker 1991, Crocker-Reynolds 1993, Bajari-Tadelis 2001, Bajari & al 2006), by considering the case of public-private contracting, as well as other studies on public-private partnerships, by focusing on toll adjustment provisions and documenting the effect of reputation and political ideology.
2007-05-13
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10541/1/MPRA_paper_10541.pdf
Athias, Laure and Saussier, Stéphane (2007): Contractual flexibility or rigidity for public private partnerships? Theory and evidence from infrastructure concession contracts.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10712
2019-10-02T08:13:37Z
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The quantification of the performances of public institutions – basics concepts
Mitu, Narcis Eduard
Dracea, Raluca
Popa, Ana
D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
P17 - Performance and Prospects
The performance of the public sector affects us all. There are at least three reasons why we should be interested in how well it functions: it is big; its outputs are special; and it is getting bigger. With all these, in Romania, the performance within the public sector represents a concept not so analyzed and rarely applied in practice. There is not the same situation in countries with a high developed economy, which represent an interest for us, along with the European integration.
Internationally, since the 1970s processes of modernization and reorganization of public institution have been initiated in diverse countries in the world. The society has demanded greater efficiency in rendering of services, a better application of public resources and also questioned the effective bureaucratic model. In this context, the model of managing government institutions gains force, consistence and become more credible.
Flexibility, decentralization, creativity, autonomy of management, and a management contract used as quantification instrument are basic characteristics of the management reforms that focus on results.
Results determination within the public sector and the implementation of a system meant to measure the financing and non-financing performances need an exact definition of the objectives and purposes of each organization and constituent institution.
2007-09-30
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10712/1/MPRA_paper_10712.pdf
Mitu, Narcis Eduard and Dracea, Raluca and Popa, Ana (2007): The quantification of the performances of public institutions – basics concepts. Published in: MIBES 2007, ISBN 978-960-87764 (30 September 2007): pp. 803-812.
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To a High Developed Public Sector
Mitu, Narcis Eduard
D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
P17 - Performance and Prospects
Performance measurement is a systematic process who affords evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization or a program. It applies real information (quantitative and qualitative characteristics) to help managers and customers (in our case, the citizens) to determine whether the expected results are being achieved. In Romania, the performance within the public sector represents a concept not so analyzed and rarely applied in practice. There is not the same situation in countries with a high developed economy , which represent an interest for us, alongside with the European integration.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10774/1/MPRA_paper_10774.pdf
Mitu, Narcis Eduard (2006): To a High Developed Public Sector. Published in: Finance - Ghallenges of the Future, ISSN 1583-3712 , Vol. No. 5, (2006): pp. 169-175.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10835
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The influence of government size on economic growth and life satisfaction. A case study from Japan.
yamamura, eiji
H50 - General
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
This paper uses Japanese prefecture-level data for the years 1979 and 1996 to examine how the relationship between government size and life satisfaction changes. The major findings are: (1) Government size has a detrimental effect on life satisfaction when government size impedes economic growth in the economic development stage. However, this effect clearly decreases when government size is not associated with economic growth in the developed stage. (2) Particularized trust is positively associated with life satisfaction of females but not with that of males. Such a tendency becomes more remarkable in the developed stage. These results are unchanged when the endogeneity bias caused by local government size and proxies of trust are controlled for.
2008-09-17
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10835/1/MPRA_paper_10835.pdf
yamamura, eiji (2008): The influence of government size on economic growth and life satisfaction. A case study from Japan.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:11291
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Tourism - Part of Sustainable Local Development
Avramescu, Tiberiu Cristian
Popescu, Ramona Florina
L82 - Entertainment ; Media
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Local development could be described as an attempt of global
territorial development including economic, social, ultural,
political aspects, encouraging the endogenous development -involving all human and financial means which contribute to it and assuring their convergence. It is a process based on the involvement of all interested actors (persons elected at local level, socio-professional groups, associative groups, initiators of projects on a certain territory) but also of the local population.
Tourism is one of the most important branches in Romanian economy, having at its disposal a huge development potential. This field can represent a development chance for many areas. The diversity of tourism activities as well as the presence of some of them in the structure of other branches of economy offers tourism the character of
an interference branch, having complex, ample connections with the other economic branches, connections that must be taken into account when local development strategies are drawn up.
Local authorities are increasingly involved in the development and running of several aspects connected to tourism. This fact is based on the decentralizing tendency found in many countries, which refers to
granting more responsibilities to local authorities. They know best what is important for the areas they manage and will do their best to achieve the local development objectives. At the same time, this reflects the stress laid on the involvement of communities in planning
tourism and in the developing process of their areas.
Tourism has many positive effects and contributes to the economic development of the areas that contain tourism sights directly and indirectly. The currency contribution of tourism, its contribution to forming the community’s income, the generation of business and employment opportunities are only a few of the aspects that show the
part played by tourism in the overall economic development of an area.
Tourism contributes to the sustainable local development. Tourism development must take place both in rural and urban environments.
2008-07-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Avramescu, Tiberiu Cristian and Popescu, Ramona Florina (2008): Tourism - Part of Sustainable Local Development. Forthcoming in: Management of International Business and Economic Systems , Vol. -, No. 2008 (4 July 2008): pp. 572-580.
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Reforma da Administração Pública: Antes e Depois da Democracia
Martins, J. Albuquerque
P11 - Planning, Coordination, and Reform
G11 - Portfolio Choice ; Investment Decisions
D02 - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
H63 - Debt ; Debt Management ; Sovereign Debt
C60 - General
A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
L38 - Public Policy
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
O16 - Financial Markets ; Saving and Capital Investment ; Corporate Finance and Governance
D61 - Allocative Efficiency ; Cost-Benefit Analysis
D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
G28 - Government Policy and Regulation
D00 - General
After the micro politics, the complexity of the “public management”, polity and policies, is the same of the “private management” or the management of the others sectors of the social production reality. The science of management it is not defined by products, functions, sectors and so on, as occurs in the economic as discipline with it focus on finance or bank.
The reasons for the activity of public and the private management are the same: the persons (market). In a post-modernism way and by influence or “imposition” of non-public big organizations, nowadays, we said “objectives”, corporate, agency theory and others best and next steps like new public management.
In this form any drive is valid and, after all, the driver don’t require any content. In that form, we are entering in the world of anaesthetics impressionisms and modernism. The costs, crisis and bankruptcy of that are enormous. Nowadays we know it, but, in fact, we know it since 1960-1980 by project PIMS, MBO, bureaucracy/autocracy and others mechanics budgets accounts.
That idealisticism and arithmetic management, economics, and influent organizations put in market one socio-psychologism and not an objective management. So, by descriptive and evidence mode, we conclude that when it applied in public administration, independently of the regime, the desired reform of the organization –in a strategic line, “society”- not occurs.
2008-03-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Martins, J. Albuquerque (2008): Reforma da Administração Pública: Antes e Depois da Democracia.
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Does Public Good Provision Determine Incumbent’s Fate? Evidence from India
Paul, Saumik
Denzau, Arthur
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H41 - Public Goods
D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
H73 - Interjurisdictional Differentials and Their Effects
In this paper we empirically examine whether public facilities like providing primary school, medical clinics, electricity etc help incumbents to stay in power. Specifically, we analyze the parliamentary election outcomes in 483 constituents in rural India from 1971 to 1991. This study is based on a simple voter model where the voter looks at the supply of public goods provided by the incumbent and then decides whether to re-elect the incumbent. We find empirical evidence that voters do significantly care about educational, electricity and communication facilities, whereas incumbents face defeat if they provide more medical or safe drinking water facilities.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11536/1/MPRA_paper_11536.pdf
Paul, Saumik and Denzau, Arthur (2006): Does Public Good Provision Determine Incumbent’s Fate? Evidence from India.
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Institutions, Education, and Economic Performance
Lim, Jamus Jerome
Adams-Kane, Jonathon
O43 - Institutions and Growth
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
This paper considers the interactions between governance, educational outcomes, and economic performance. More specifically, we seek to establish the linkages by which institutional quality affect growth by considering its mediating impact on education. While the contribution of both human capital and institutions to growth are often acknowledged, the channels by which institutions affect human capital and, in turn, growth, has been relatively underexplored. Our empirical approach adopts a two-stage strategy that estimates national-level educational production functions which include institutional governance as a covariate, and uses these estimates as instruments for human capital in cross-country growth regressions.
2008-10-28
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Lim, Jamus Jerome and Adams-Kane, Jonathon (2008): Institutions, Education, and Economic Performance.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:11963
2019-10-28T19:06:20Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12161
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Political Power of the Czech Representatives in the European Parliament
Mielcova, Elena
Cemerkova, Sarka
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
C71 - Cooperative Games
The main aim of the article is to compare the power of the Czech representatives in the European Parliament with the power of representatives from other countries, and to compare the power of the Czech political parties in the Lower House of the Czech Parliament with the power of parties’ representatives as European parliamentary political group’s members.
2008-05-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12161/1/MPRA_paper_12161.pdf
Mielcova, Elena and Cemerkova, Sarka (2008): Political Power of the Czech Representatives in the European Parliament.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12200
2019-10-25T05:28:49Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12258
2019-09-28T18:09:23Z
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Political Power of the Czech Representatives in the European Parliament
Mielcova, Elena
Cemerkova, Sarka
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
C71 - Cooperative Games
The main aim of the article is to compare the power of the Czech representatives in the European Parliament with the power of representatives from other countries, and to compare the power of the Czech political parties in the Lower House of the Czech Parliament with the power of parties’ representatives as European parliamentary political group’s members.
2008-05-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12258/1/MPRA_paper_12258.pdf
Mielcova, Elena and Cemerkova, Sarka (2008): Political Power of the Czech Representatives in the European Parliament. Published in: Conference proceedings: "Four -Year Membership of Central and Eastern European Countries in the European Union: the Effects and New Calls for the National and Regional Labour Markets" (May 2008): pp. 503-509.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12408
2019-09-27T10:33:01Z
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Cross-Cutting Literature Review on the Drivers of Local Council Accountability and Performance
Lankina, Tomila
H70 - General
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H0 - General
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
G18 - Government Policy and Regulation
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists
There is now a considerable body of literature on decentralization in diverse national contexts. Ascertaining factors that drive local accountability and performance have been the key concerns of these studies. Diverse ethodological instruments and approaches have been used—from large-n statistical analyses to in-depth case study techniques. And yet, the findings regarding the drivers of local performance and accountability remain inconclusive or even contradictory even when different scholars employ similar data.
2008-07-16
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12408/1/MPRA_paper_12408.pdf
Lankina, Tomila (2008): Cross-Cutting Literature Review on the Drivers of Local Council Accountability and Performance. Published in: WORLD BANK LOCAL GOVERNANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY SERIES No. Paper No. 112 (July 2008): pp. 1-60.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12880
2019-10-16T04:27:34Z
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The prospects for Romania and state of the conduct ISPA Program
Duduiala-Popescu, Lorena
F43 - Economic Growth of Open Economies
E60 - General
F42 - International Policy Coordination and Transmission
F15 - Economic Integration
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
G38 - Government Policy and Regulation
H76 - State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories
F41 - Open Economy Macroeconomics
E61 - Policy Objectives ; Policy Designs and Consistency ; Policy Coordination
European Union countries recorded growth rates differ. Therefore, the European policy of regional development aimed at ensuring heterogeneously and achieve the objective of convergence at European level must take into account the steps taken by each country, especially in if new countries joined.
The paper presents the implementation in 2000-2006 ISPA program and also conducted an analysis of how to attract European funds and how meeting the targets envisaged in the Accession Partnership between the European Union and Romania to meet national modernization of transport infrastructure and environment.
Analysis shows serious dysfunction in ISPA funds absorption compared with funds allocated although, in terms of allocation of funds by the European Commission, Romania is in second place after Poland.
2009-01-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12880/1/MPRA_paper_12880.pdf
Duduiala-Popescu, Lorena (2009): The prospects for Romania and state of the conduct ISPA Program.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12881
2019-09-30T03:33:52Z
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The role of institutional design in the conduct of infrastructure industries reforms - An illustration through telecommunications in developing countries
Recuero Virto, Laura
Gasmi, Farid
Noumba Um, Paul
L96 - Telecommunications
L51 - Economics of Regulation
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
L97 - Utilities: General
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
This paper discusses the relationship between the quality of political and economic institutions and the performance of the infrastructure industries reform process in developing countries. Our point of departure is that, when
thinking about this relationship, it is necessary to take into account the specific features of these countries’ economies (Gasmi and Recuero Virto, 2005, Laffont, 2005). Based on two econometric analysis of time-series-crosssectional data on the telecommunications sector, we present the empirical findings and policy implications pertaining two issues (Gasmi et al., 2006,
Gasmi and Recuero Virto, 2007). The first issue concerns the impact of the quality of institutions on the performance of regulation. Our review points to the fact that political accountability of institutional systems is a
key determinant of regulatory performance. The second issue relates to the factors that shape the sectorial reforms themselves and the impact on these reforms on the development of the industry. Our main conclusion is that
countries’ institutional risk and financial constraints are among the major factors that explain which reforms are actually implemented.
2009
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12881/1/MPRA_paper_12881.pdf
Recuero Virto, Laura and Gasmi, Farid and Noumba Um, Paul (2009): The role of institutional design in the conduct of infrastructure industries reforms - An illustration through telecommunications in developing countries.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12889
2019-10-10T04:48:20Z
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Qualité institutionnelle et performance économique : cas des télécommunications dans les pays en voie de développement
Recuero Virto, Laura
Gasmi, Farid
Belaid, Rabah
L96 - Telecommunications
L51 - Economics of Regulation
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
L97 - Utilities: General
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
In recent years, a number of studies have shown that institutions are crucial to economic development. This
literature has highlighted a relationship between the quality of the macro-institutional environment and the
performance of reform policies conducted in some key sectors of the economy. This paper explores this
relationship in the context of developing countries for the case of telecommunications, the sector among the
infrastructure industries that has experienced worldwide probably the deepest structural changes. We specify an
econometric model for a data base of observations on a panel of 32 developing countries covering fifteen years
(1985-1999). The sample is decomposed into two panels according to GNP per inhabitant, thus allowing us to
test for the existence of a level of revenue below which, once the effect of reforms variables, liberalization and
privatization of the incumbent, has been controlled for, the quality of institutions plays only a minor role. We
find that the impact of the institutional quality on the performance of the industry is more perceptible in the
sample of countries with the lower GNP per inhabitant. Thus, within the developing countries, the marginal
effect of an investment in improving the institutional quality is higher in the countries with lower revenues.
This result might explain the recent trend of international donors to reallocate resources to long term policies
for improving institutional mechanisms as a substitute to shorter-term aid policies focusing on sector-specific
governance issues, in particular, in less developed countries.
2009
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12889/1/MPRA_paper_12889.pdf
Recuero Virto, Laura and Gasmi, Farid and Belaid, Rabah (2009): Qualité institutionnelle et performance économique : cas des télécommunications dans les pays en voie de développement. Published in: Télécom ParisTech No. Working Paper ESS-09-01
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The priorities of the EU budget for 2009
Duduiala-Popescu, Lorena
G31 - Capital Budgeting ; Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies ; Capacity
F59 - Other
F43 - Economic Growth of Open Economies
A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists
F15 - Economic Integration
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity
F01 - Global Outlook
E61 - Policy Objectives ; Policy Designs and Consistency ; Policy Coordination
The priorities of the EU budget for 2009 are: economic growth, employment, climate, strengthening security and safety of European citizens, the social dimension of the EU. Divided into areas, the EU provides for sustainable development, regional education and research 45.9 billion for natural resources 52.58 billion euros for EU citizenship, justice and home affairs 1.3 billion, and for expenses Board 7.64 billion.
2009-01-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12995/1/MPRA_paper_12995.pdf
Duduiala-Popescu, Lorena (2009): The priorities of the EU budget for 2009.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13663
2019-10-03T04:38:20Z
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How can the Power of Leviathans be Measured?
Jürgen, Göbel
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H72 - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
In certain respects, it seems expedient to describe a government as a homogeneous and self-interested entity, called ’Leviathan’. To optimize fiscal constraints, we need to know how powerful a Leviathan really is. This paper presents a new approach to measure the power of Leviathans. This new approach defines fiscal fiscal power in terms of income deviation. It supposes that there exists a positive connection between fiscal power and intergovernmental grants. To examine the approach empirically, we use data on U.S. counties in the period 1999-2002. Equations of fiscal power are estimated on the full and on stratified samples. Overall, the results support the new approach. Nonetheless, further research on the highly significant control variables would be needed to derive recommendations for more efficient fiscal constraints.
2009-02-28
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13663/1/MPRA_paper_13663.pdf
Jürgen, Göbel (2009): How can the Power of Leviathans be Measured?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13789
2019-10-01T04:46:10Z
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How can the power of Leviathans be measured?
Göbel, Jürgen
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H72 - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
H30 - General
In certain respects, it seems expedient to describe a government as a homogeneous and self-interested entity, called ’Leviathan’. To optimize fiscal constraints, we need to know how powerful a Leviathan really is. This paper presents a new approach to measure the power of Leviathans. This new approach defines fiscal power in terms of income deviation. It supposes that there exists a positive connection between fiscal power and intergovernmental grants. To examine the approach empirically, we use data on U.S. counties in the period 1999-2002. Equations of fiscal power are estimated on the full and on stratified samples. Overall, the results support the new approach. Nonetheless, further research on the highly significant control variables would be needed to derive recommendations for more efficient fiscal constraints.
2009-02-28
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13789/1/MPRA_paper_13789.pdf
Göbel, Jürgen (2009): How can the power of Leviathans be measured?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13924
2019-09-27T12:48:23Z
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How can the power of Leviathans be measured?
Göbel, Jürgen
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H72 - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
H30 - General
In certain respects, it seems expedient to describe a government as a homogeneous and self-interested entity, called ’Leviathan’. To optimize fiscal constraints, we need to know how powerful a Leviathan really is. This paper presents a new approach to measure the power of Leviathans. This new approach defines fiscal power in terms of income deviation. It supposes that there exists a positive connection between fiscal power and intergovernmental grants. To examine the approach empirically, we use data on U.S. counties in the period 1999-2002. Equations of fiscal power are estimated on the full and on stratified samples. Overall, the results support the new approach. Nonetheless, further research on the highly significant control variables would be needed to derive recommendations for more efficient fiscal constraints.
2009-02-28
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13924/1/MPRA_paper_13924.pdf
Göbel, Jürgen (2009): How can the power of Leviathans be measured?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13940
2019-09-29T17:44:24Z
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In search of an appropriate tax base for local Leviathans
Göbel, Jürgen
H21 - Efficiency ; Optimal Taxation
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
R51 - Finance in Urban and Rural Economies
The impact of local fiscal policy depends on the choice of the tax base. In this paper, we take four criteria to evaluate tax bases, namely: efficiency, simplicity, flexibility, and fairness. The results of such an evaluation depend on how we describe the involved agents. We construct a two stage model of a local economy with three types of agents: Leviathans, households, and housing firms. Each Leviathan seeks to maximize the surplus of his local fiscal budget. Each household seeks to maximize its life-time utility from three types of goods: composite private goods, housing, and local public goods. Each housing firm seeks to maximize its profits. In this model, we analyze the characteristics of four distinct tax bases: land rent, housing capital rent, housing sales, and housing property. In particular, we analyze the responses of the households, the housing firms, and the housing prices on a change of a specific tax rate. The results are used to evaluate each tax base with respect to our four criteria.
2009-02-28
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13940/1/MPRA_paper_13940.pdf
Göbel, Jürgen (2009): In search of an appropriate tax base for local Leviathans.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:14434
2019-09-28T11:34:24Z
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Youth and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Challenges and Opportunities for Implementation
Farmanesh, Amir
Ashton, Melanie
Davila-Ortega, Luis
Freeburg, Emily
Kamping, Catherine
Marquez, Solange
Neil, Cameron
Bartlett, Richard
I30 - General
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
O20 - General
Young people ages 15 to 24 are 1.2 billion of the world’s human capital. Around the world, many of them are already making contributions to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and their work should be further acknowledged and strengthened. Increasingly, youth are recognized as key participants in decision-making and development, as reflected in the growing presence of non-governmental youth organizations and the upsurge of youth advisory boards and committees to international institutions and programmes. Yet building the capacity of and creating sustained partnerships with young people are crucial strategies to achieving the MDGs that have not been fully realized by the international community.
This paper aims to provide an overview of youth participation as it currently exists, to outline the ways in which youth are directly involved and affected by each Goal, to demonstrate the ways in which young people are contributing to the MDGs, and to provide ‘Options for Action’ that governments, the United Nations system, donors and other actors can harness, support, and scale-up in order to support young people in making significant contributions to achieving the MDGs.
Part I outlines the existing mechanisms for youth participation in development policy. These channels can be used by governments and institutions to strengthen and mobilize young people as partners in policy formulation. Successful modes of participation should be recognized and replicated, and also adapted to the challenging political and socio-economic realities facing many youth-led and youth-serving organizations.
Part II presents youth participation as it relates directly to the MDGs. Each goal is analyzed with respect to its effect on young peoples lives as well as how young people can play – and indeed are playing — a role in its implementation. Under each goal are a number of “Options for Action” that governments, the UN and multilateral organizations can use to fully harness the contributions that youth can make to achieving the MDGs.
Part III outlines the synergies between the Options for Action presented in this report and the Quick Wins proposed by the Millennium Project. The Options for Action are complimentary and provide a process to implement the Quick Win actions, using young people as key implementing agents and service providers. Part III also outlines a number of youth-focused Quick Wins that can make a significant and measurable difference to the state of young people in target countries.
Part IV elaborates on how youth can participate in achieving the MDGs and contains cross-cutting recommendations on youth engagement in all 8 Goals.
Overall, the report demonstrates that investing in youth will provide the longest and most effective dividend towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by building the social capital needed to foster pragmatic development. Indeed, without the involvement of young people, a demographic that comprises one fifth of the world’s total population, the full achievement of the MDGs will remain elusive and their long-term sustainability will be compromised. Youth participation is currently quite varied, ranging from effective, to sometimes tokenistic, to often non-existent. There are specific ways in which youth and youth organizations can contribute to the design and implementation of MDG-based strategies, some of which are outlined in this document. Many projects are already happening, but there is much work left still to be done.
2005-04
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Farmanesh, Amir and Ashton, Melanie and Davila-Ortega, Luis and Freeburg, Emily and Kamping, Catherine and Marquez, Solange and Neil, Cameron and Bartlett, Richard (2005): Youth and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Challenges and Opportunities for Implementation. Published in: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) (April 2005)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:14754
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Diagnosing performance management and performance budgeting systems: A case study of the U.S. Navy
Webb, Natalie J
Candreva, Philip J
E62 - Fiscal Policy
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H61 - Budget ; Budget Systems
We present here a case study of an organization within the U.S. Navy that created a new organizational construct and performance management system. We explore the issues faced by naval leaders as they attempt to use their performance information to make resource allocation decisions at the sub-organization level, and base budgets at the organization and service (navy) level. We attempt to diagnose many of the practical problems a government organization encounters when implementing a performance management system, to include trying to inform budgets, and make recommendations on actions that would improve the strength of the performance system. We find in the organization a good conceptual framework, organizational enthusiasm, and reasonable attempts to link disparate information systems into a coherent whole. The good intentions are hindered, however, by inadequate accounting systems, a lack of understanding of cost accounting methods, weak use of terminology and longstanding institutional attitudes. This case confirms challenges associated with both performance management systems and performance budgeting found in the literature, and we offer recommendations for public officials considering such endeavors.
2009-03-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14754/1/MPRA_paper_14754.pdf
Webb, Natalie J and Candreva, Philip J (2009): Diagnosing performance management and performance budgeting systems: A case study of the U.S. Navy.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:14927
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Government Instability Indicators and the Exercise of limited "Consensus" in post-communist Romania 1992-2004
Olimid, Anca Parmena
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
During the 1990s post communist societies faced similar challenges at the level of executive government. Since the early studies of Rosenthal (1978), political science literature’s focus is on the different continuums of political stability.In recent years there has been an increased interest in analyzing the effects of political instability in post communist Romania. This article is an effort to look at the indicators of political instability (redefined as Government instability) in an unconsolidated democracy. The issue of political stability in post-communist Romania must of course be analyzed in relation to the challenges of reform and the sources of the limited consensus in government coalition in Romania (1992-2004).
2008-11-22
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Olimid, Anca Parmena (2008): Government Instability Indicators and the Exercise of limited "Consensus" in post-communist Romania 1992-2004. Published in: Revista de stiinte politice - Revue des sciences politiques No. 20 (2008): pp. 76-81.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15096
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Why State Constitutions Differ in their Treatment of Same-Sex Marriage
Lupia, Arthur
Krupnikov, Yanna
Levine, Adam Seth
Piston, Spencer
Hagen-Jamae, Alexander von
H70 - General
K0 - General
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Some states treat a same-sex marriage as legally equal to a marriage between a man and a woman. Other states prohibit legal recognition of same-sex marriages in their constitutions. In every state that has a constitutional restriction against same-sex marriage, the amendment was passed by a popular vote.
The conventional wisdom about allowing voter participation in such decisions is that they yield constitutional outcomes that reflect attitude differences across states. We reexamine the attitude-amendment relationship and find it to be weaker than expected.
In particular, we show that states vary in the costs they impose on constituencies that desire constitutional change. Some states impose very low costs (i.e., a simple majority of voters is sufficient for change). Other states impose very high costs (i.e., substantial legislative and voter supermajoriries are requires). We find that variations in the legal status of same-sex marriage across US states is better explained by these variations in costs than they are by differences in public opinion.
Our method yields an improved explanation of why states differ in their constitutional treatment of same-sex marriage today. Our findings have distinct implications for people who wish to understand and/or change the future status of same-sex couples in state constitutions.
2009-04-23
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Lupia, Arthur and Krupnikov, Yanna and Levine, Adam Seth and Piston, Spencer and Hagen-Jamae, Alexander von (2009): Why State Constitutions Differ in their Treatment of Same-Sex Marriage.
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Flood Insurance Coverage in the Coastal Zone
Landry, Craig E.
Jahan-Parvar, Mohammad R.
D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Q54 - Climate ; Natural Disasters and Their Management ; Global Warming
We explore behavior and test theory regarding the determinants of flood insurance coverage in the coastal zone using household-level data for nine southeastern counties. We use Tobit regression models to assess the importance and magnitude of insurance cost, risk factors, community characteristics, and household attributes on flood insurance purchase for residential building structures. Overall estimates indicate price inelastic demand, though subsidized policyholders are more sensitive to price and hold greater flood insurance coverage (controlling for value of asset at risk). We find support for rational choice in the coastal zone, with flood insurance coverage positively correlated in the level of flood risk. We find evidence that coastal erosion risk effects flood insurance demand, and that community level erosion hazard mitigation projects influence flood insurance holdings, with shoreline armoring appearing to act as a substitute and beach replenishment appearing to act as a complement.
2008-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Landry, Craig E. and Jahan-Parvar, Mohammad R. (2008): Flood Insurance Coverage in the Coastal Zone.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15499
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Performance budgeting: selected international experiences and some lessons for Slovenia
Aristovnik, Aleksander
Seljak, Janko
H50 - General
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H61 - Budget ; Budget Systems
The paper’s main purpose is to briefly discuss the concept of performance budgeting and challenges encountered by different (OECD) countries when seeking to implement performance budgeting, which might offer some helpful guidelines for Slovenia. The paper also presents the methodological framework applied in defining goals in a society as well as the role and the interdependence of social indicators and performance indicators for specific units/programs in public administration. Theoretical bases of such procedures will be presented along with an empirical concept which is believed to be appropriate for Slovenia. The formulation of the concept stems from the definitions given in the Budget Manual for 2008-2009 where individual budget users are responsible for monitoring their performance and efficiency. On this basis, we developed a theoretical concept of connections between different levels of long-term goals, implementational goals as well as efficiency and effectiveness indicators at the level of sub-programs of selected budget users. A theoretical and methodological framework constructed in this way will hopefully serve as the basis for realizing the concept of Slovenian direct performance budgeting in the near future.
2009-05-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Aristovnik, Aleksander and Seljak, Janko (2009): Performance budgeting: selected international experiences and some lessons for Slovenia. Published in: Journal of Economics , Vol. 58, No. 3 (2010): pp. 271-291.
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Macroeconomic of populism in Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza
N45 - Asia including Middle East
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
O53 - Asia including Middle East
This paper uses the Dornbusch and Edwards (1990) analytical framework to investigate the macroeconomic populism in Iran under the Ahmadinejad government. My thesis endeavours to place the government of Ahmadinejad in a populist context and forecasts its fall mainly due to macroeconomic instabilities. The purpose of this study is to illustrate how closely
Ahmadinejad’s government follows the model of Dornbusch and Edwards (1990).
2009-06-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza (2009): Macroeconomic of populism in Iran.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15657
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Does legislative turnover adversely affect state expenditure policy? Evidence from Indian state elections
Uppal, Yogesh
E62 - Fiscal Policy
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
I examine the effect of legislative turnover on the size and composition of government expenditures in Indian state elections during 1980-2000. The paper finds that excessive turnover in Indian state elections results in an inefficient government expenditure policy. First, the higher the turnover, the larger is the size of government. Second, excessive turnover affects the allocative efficiency of the government expenditure by skewing the composition of government spending towards pure consumption expenditure and away from more productive investment expenditure. The findings imply that a lack of a proper commitment mechanism in political markets could be a source of inefficiency in government policy.
2009-06-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Uppal, Yogesh (2009): Does legislative turnover adversely affect state expenditure policy? Evidence from Indian state elections.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15948
2019-09-29T17:51:35Z
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A Comparison of Demographic, Social and Economic Conditions of Tharparkar with Canal Barrage Area Sindh (1988-2000): An Introduction
Herani, Gobind M.
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
Q12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
P28 - Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment
J11 - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
D13 - Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Q15 - Land Ownership and Tenure ; Land Reform ; Land Use ; Irrigation ; Agriculture and Environment
I38 - Government Policy ; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
This is study comparative study of Tharpakar with Barrage area Sindh and introductory chapter of the thesis of Ph.D submitted in 2002. In this chapter background of demographic, social and economic conditions are compared with each other. Purpose of the chapter was to give the complete picture of both areas for proper occlusions and recommendations for policy maker to get the Tharparkar better economically and socially. Mostly secondary data from reliable sources was given in this chapter. This study reveals that Thar is good only for livestock raiser and non-crops (Rangeland plantation). When we touch the educational side then we come to know that at the primary level education in barrage area is much better than Tharparkar. In Middle class and up to intermediate level education ratio of Tharparkar is much better than barrage area of Sindh province. At the graduate and postgraduate level barrage area is little higher in ratio than Tharparkar due to low facilities available in Tharparkar. The Minerals of Tharparkar may prove the better than barrage area. At the level of immediate measure for the development of Thar there is need of improvement of Rangeland, farmlands and races of livestock. The future of Thar is livestock with well-managed natural vegetation.
2002-04-05
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NonPeerReviewed
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Herani, Gobind M. (2002): A Comparison of Demographic, Social and Economic Conditions of Tharparkar with Canal Barrage Area Sindh (1988-2000): An Introduction. Published in: An Agro-based Industry of Tharparkar with Canal Barrage Area, Sindh (1988-2000) Suggested Techniques Leading to An Industrial Economy , Vol. Chapte, No. Ph.D Thesis : pp. 1-50.
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Political Determinants of Economic Reforms in the Post-Communist Transition Countries
Staehr, Karsten
Tamazian, Artur
Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya
P21 - Planning, Coordination, and Reform
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
P26 - Political Economy ; Property Rights
This paper examines how political institutions and electoral outcomes have affected the economic
reform process in the post-communist transition countries. Panel data estimations on
annual data for 26 transition economies from 1992 to 2006 suggest that the institutional structure
of the economy has been of importance, at least for the western-most transition countries.
Democratisation and a relatively short exposure to communist rule have been conducive to
economic reform, while the timing of elections and whether the government commands a majority
in parliament appear to have been unimportant. Governments with right-wing ideology
have implemented more market-economic reforms than governments with other ideologies. A
high development level but also high inflation have proved conducive to reforms, while unemployment
has had the opposite effect.
2009-05-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Staehr, Karsten and Tamazian, Artur and Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya (2009): Political Determinants of Economic Reforms in the Post-Communist Transition Countries.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16140
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Development of Direct Democracy in Swiss Cantons between 1997 and 2003
Fischer, Justina AV
H4 - Publicly Provided Goods
D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
H72 - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
K19 - Other
H73 - Interjurisdictional Differentials and Their Effects
N40 - General, International, or Comparative
This paper describes institutions of direct democracy between 1997 and 2003 in 26 Swiss cantons (states), specifically the statutory initiative and referendum, the constitutional initiative, and the fiscal referendum. In particular, it discusses their applications, but also the legal requirements for making use of them, including the signature requirements, the time available for their collection, and the financial thresholds. Optional and mandatory forms of these direct-legislative institutions are distinguished.
This paper also provides calculations of the index and sub-indices of direct democracy for the additional years 1997 to 2003, in continuation of Stutzer (1999), using the identical methodology. Extending Trechsel and Serdült (1999) and Stutzer (1999) this paper includes the political institutions of the so-called Landsgemeinde cantons. Description of these institutions is based on the author’s reading of 26 cantonal constitutions in their versions between 1997 and 2003.
2009-07-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16140/1/MPRA_paper_16140.pdf
Fischer, Justina AV (2009): Development of Direct Democracy in Swiss Cantons between 1997 and 2003.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16462
2019-09-26T16:51:06Z
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Literacy and Numeracy in Faith-Based and Government Schools in Sierra Leone
Wodon, Quentin
Ying, Yvonne
Z12 - Religion
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
I21 - Analysis of Education
L33 - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions ; Privatization ; Contracting Out
H44 - Publicly Provided Goods: Mixed Markets
This paper provides a comparative assessment of the market share, reach to the poor, and performance of faith-based and public schools in Sierra Leone using data from the 2004 Integrated Household Survey. One-third of primary school students attend government schools and more than half are in faith-based government-assisted schools. Faith-based schools tend to serve children who live in poverty more than public schools, and after controlling for student and household characteristics and school choice, they also perform slightly better than public schools.
2009-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16462/1/MPRA_paper_16462.pdf
Wodon, Quentin and Ying, Yvonne (2009): Literacy and Numeracy in Faith-Based and Government Schools in Sierra Leone. Published in: Emerging Evidence on Vouchers and Faith-Based Providers in Education: Case Studies from Africa, Latin America, and Asia, edited by F. Barrera-Osorio, H. A. Patinos, and Q. Wodon, Directions in Development, World Bank, Washington, DC (June 2009): pp. 99-117.
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2019-09-30T10:16:44Z
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Comparing the Performance of Faith-Based and Government Schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Backiny-Yetna, Prospere
Wodon, Quentin
Z12 - Religion
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
I21 - Analysis of Education
L33 - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions ; Privatization ; Contracting Out
H44 - Publicly Provided Goods: Mixed Markets
This paper provides a comparative assessment of the market share, reach to the poor, and performance of faith-based and public schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo using data from the 2004-2005 "123" survey. More than two thirds of primary school students attend faith-based government-assisted schools. Both types of school cater to a similar population that is overwhelmingly poor. Faith-based schools perform slightly better at least in some dimensions than government schools, but the differences between the two types of schools are small and not statistically significant.
2009-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Backiny-Yetna, Prospere and Wodon, Quentin (2009): Comparing the Performance of Faith-Based and Government Schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Published in: Emerging Evidence on Vouchers and Faith-Based Providers in Education: Case Studies from Africa, Latin America, and Asia, edited by F. Barrera-Osorio, H. A. Patinos, and Q. Wodon, Directions in Development, World Bank, Washington, DC (June 2009): pp. 119-135.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16464
2019-09-28T16:44:33Z
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Comparing the Private Cost of Education at Public, Private, and Faith-Based Schools in Cameroon
Backiny-Yetna, Prospere
Wodon, Quentin
Z12 - Religion
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
I21 - Analysis of Education
L33 - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions ; Privatization ; Contracting Out
H44 - Publicly Provided Goods: Mixed Markets
This paper uses recent household survey data for Cameroon to measure the cost for households of the education services that their children receive and assess how this cost varies according to the type of service provider. Contrary to what has been observed in some other countries, the data suggest that faith-based schools in Cameroon serve primarily better-off children, with public schools serving the poor more. Faith-based schools are also more expensive for households than private schools (possibly due to lower levels of public funding). This may be one of the reasons why the poor tend to go to public schools more than to faith-based schools.
2009-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16464/1/MPRA_paper_16464.pdf
Backiny-Yetna, Prospere and Wodon, Quentin (2009): Comparing the Private Cost of Education at Public, Private, and Faith-Based Schools in Cameroon. Published in: Emerging Evidence on Vouchers and Faith-Based Providers in Education: Case Studies from Africa, Latin America, and Asia, edited by F. Barrera-Osorio, H. A. Patinos, and Q. Wodon, Directions in Development, World Bank, Washington, DC (June 2009): pp. 165-178.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16493
2019-09-27T03:32:52Z
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Public sector efficiency: Leveling the playing field between OECD countries
Adam, Antonis
Delis, Manthos D
Kammas, Pantelis
H50 - General
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
In this paper we seek a robust methodology to measure the relative public spending efficiency of 19 OECD countries over the period 1980-2000. Based on the functional classification of government expenditure, we decompose total public spending into its separate accounts and we employ a semi-parametric method to obtain relative efficiency scores (for the separate accounts as well as for aggregate public spending). The econometric method isolates the impact of government inefficiency from the inefficiency arising from the socioeconomic environment or luck, thus leveling the playing field between the examined countries. The results suggest that the quality of governance is more important than the socioeconomic environment or luck. Finally, we propose a technique to measure the allocative efficiency of public spending, in an effort to proxy the optimal allocation of public funds when the governments set specific targets.
2008-12-18
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16493/1/MPRA_paper_16493.pdf
Adam, Antonis and Delis, Manthos D and Kammas, Pantelis (2008): Public sector efficiency: Leveling the playing field between OECD countries.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16597
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Commitment devices, opportunity windows, and institution building in Central Asia
Danne, Christian
O10 - General
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
P20 - General
This paper studies the institutional reform process in Central Asia from a choice perspective. We compare institutional reform processes of
Central Asian countries from 1995 to 2006 to those conducted in their neighbouring
countries in Central and (South) Eastern Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. Firstly,
the paper identifies contemporaneous factors responsible for the persistence of poor
institutional arrangements. Secondly, we identify factors that can act as commitment
devices through which institutional change can be achieved and sustained. Based on the
findings, it is argued that deficiencies in the education system and preferences of
individuals and politicians are responsible for the persistence of poor institutional
arrangements. External factors such as real and financial openness, fixed exchange rates
and non-trade related international agreements, however, provide strong commitment
devices for policy makers to improve institutional arrangements in Central Asia despite
poor initial conditions. Moreover, large external shocks may help to shift preferences
towards more reliable institutional settings.
2009-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Danne, Christian (2009): Commitment devices, opportunity windows, and institution building in Central Asia.
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Gender, corruption and sustainable growth in transition countries
Michailova, Julija
Melnykovska, Inna
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
O10 - General
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination
Numerous studies have found negative connection between corruption level and economic development. At the same time few of them demonstrate correlation between women representation in politics and corruption level. This paper analyzes correlation between gender and corruption for a specific sample of countries, sharing common cultural and historical legacy – transition countries. Relationship between higher number of women in parliament and decreasing level of corruption is supported by data. Relations with other forms of women social activity were found to be insignificant. Contribution of this paper to the research literature on this topic is twofold. First analysis on gender and corruption in transition economies has previously not been done. Second, this study could also be used for the practical policies on fighting corruption by application of gender quotas.
2009-05-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17074/1/MPRA_paper_17074.pdf
Michailova, Julija and Melnykovska, Inna (2009): Gender, corruption and sustainable growth in transition countries.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:17086
2019-09-28T20:41:14Z
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The more the merrier? Number of bidders, information dispersion, renegotiation and winner’s curse in toll road concessions
Athias, Laure
Nunez, Antonio
H57 - Procurement
H54 - Infrastructures ; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
L51 - Economics of Regulation
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
D44 - Auctions
D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design
We empirically assess the winner’s curse effect in auctions for toll road concessions. First, we investigate the overall winner’s curse effects on bidding behaviour. Second, we account for differing levels of common-value components. Third, we investigate whether the possibility of renegotiation affects the winner’s curse effect. Using a unique dataset of 49 concessions, we show that the winner’s curse effect is particularly strong, i.e. bidders bid less aggressively when they expect more competition. In addition, we observe that this effect is larger for projects where the common uncertainty is greater, and is dampened in weaker institutional frameworks, in which renegotiations are easier.
2008-04-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Athias, Laure and Nunez, Antonio (2008): The more the merrier? Number of bidders, information dispersion, renegotiation and winner’s curse in toll road concessions.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:17096
2019-09-28T06:56:25Z
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Gender, corruption and sustainable growth in transition countries
Michailova, Julija
Melnykovska, Inna
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
O10 - General
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination
Numerous studies have found negative connection between corruption level and economic development. At the same time few of them demonstrate correlation between women representation in politics and corruption level. This paper analyzes correlation between gender and corruption for a specific sample of countries, sharing common cultural and historical legacy – transition countries. Relationship between higher number of women in parliament and decreasing level of corruption is supported by data. Relations with other forms of women social activity were found to be insignificant. Contribution of this paper to the research literature on this topic is twofold. First analysis on gender and corruption in transition economies has previously not been done. Second, this study could also be used for the practical policies on fighting corruption by application of gender quotas.
2009-05-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17096/1/MPRA_paper_17096.pdf
Michailova, Julija and Melnykovska, Inna (2009): Gender, corruption and sustainable growth in transition countries.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:17344
2019-09-26T09:43:55Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17344/
Branding Ghana
Ofori, Eunice
P41 - Planning, Coordination, and Reform
M31 - Marketing
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Ghana being a developing nation should embark on a national rebranding campaign to change its image domestically and internationally. This paper focuses on ways in which the Ghanaian government can achieve its goals, where the campaign wouldn’t just be another governmental propaganda, but prove worthy of taxpayers’ money, with the effects witnessed by all.
2009-09-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17344/1/MPRA_paper_17344.pdf
Ofori, Eunice (2009): Branding Ghana.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:17879
2019-10-01T18:16:26Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17879/
The influence of government size on economic growth and life satisfaction. A case study from Japan.
Yamamura, Eiji
H50 - General
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
This paper uses Japanese prefecture-level data for the years 1979 and 1996 to examine how the relationship between government size and life satisfaction changes. The major findings are: (1) Government size has a detrimental effect on life satisfaction when government size impedes economic growth in the economic developing stage. However, this effect clearly decreases when government size is not associated with economic growth in the developed stage. (2) Particularized trust is positively associated with life satisfaction of females but not with that of males. Such a tendency becomes more remarkable in the developed stage. These results are unchanged when the endogeneity bias caused by local government size and proxies of trust are controlled for.
2009-10-14
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17879/1/MPRA_paper_17879.pdf
Yamamura, Eiji (2009): The influence of government size on economic growth and life satisfaction. A case study from Japan.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:18097
2019-09-26T13:52:51Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18097/
Decentralization and good governance: The case of Indonesia
Green, Keith
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Indonesia began a process of rapid government decentralization in 1999 from a formerly strong centralized government structure. I review the history of decentralization in Indonesia and assess how Indonesia has fared in pursuing a decentralization policy since 1999. I illustrate how Indonesia meets several criteria of successful decentralization and how it is fails the criteria in principle in other areas. Finally, I indicate the likely future challenges faced by Indonesia as it implements decentralization and provide some recommendations to improve the ongoing decentralization process.
2005-02-28
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18097/1/MPRA_paper_18097.pdf
Green, Keith (2005): Decentralization and good governance: The case of Indonesia.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:18235
2019-09-29T10:28:37Z
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7375626A656374733D45:4530:453032
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18235/
Turkish economic policy under AKP government: an assessment for 2002-2007
Ugur, Mehmet
E02 - Institutions and the Macroeconomy
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
E63 - Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy ; Stabilization ; Treasury Policy
D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
This article agrees with the received wisdom that the rule of AKP government has been associated with better macroeconomic outcomes in Turkey from 2002-2007. However, it argues that it is necessary to question the received wisdom for several reasons. First, AKP government’s contribution to Turkey’s economic performance from 2002-2007 was largely due to its consent to ‘tie its hands’ under the pre-existing International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Union (EU) accession conditionality rather than because of AKP-specific policy innovation. Secondly, AKP’s attempt at policy innovation after 2004 have been associated with less impressive economic outcomes. Finally, the AKP has been unsuccessful in addressing the structural constraints and vulnerabilities that threaten the long-run sustainability of Turkey’s economic growth and its macroeconomic stability.
2008-04-24
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18235/1/MPRA_paper_18235.pdf
Ugur, Mehmet (2008): Turkish economic policy under AKP government: an assessment for 2002-2007.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:18439
2019-09-27T16:28:59Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4835:483530
7375626A656374733D48:4831:483131
7375626A656374733D49:4933:493331
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18439/
The influence of government size on economic growth and life satisfaction. A case study from Japan
Yamamura, Eiji
H50 - General
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
This paper uses Japanese prefecture-level data for the years 1979 and 1996 to examine how the relationship between government size and life satisfaction changes. The major findings are: (1) Government size has a detrimental effect on life satisfaction when government size impedes economic growth in the economic developing stage. However, this effect clearly decreases when government size is not associated with economic growth in the developed stage. (2) Particularized trust is positively associated with life satisfaction of females but not with that of males. Such a tendency becomes more remarkable in the developed stage. These results are unchanged when the endogeneity bias caused by local government size and proxies of trust are controlled for.
2009-11-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18439/1/MPRA_paper_18439.pdf
Yamamura, Eiji (2009): The influence of government size on economic growth and life satisfaction. A case study from Japan.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:18731
2019-09-30T17:09:00Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4831:483130
7375626A656374733D4B:4B32:4B3230
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7375626A656374733D4F:4F35:4F3530
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18731/
Corruption and the Effects of Economic Freedom
Pieroni, Luca
d'Agostino, Giorgio
H10 - General
K20 - General
H50 - General
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
O50 - General
The predictions that economic freedom is beneficial in reducing corruption have not been found to be universally robust in empirical studies. The present work reviews this relationship by using firms' data in a cross-country survey and argues that approaches using aggregated macro data have not been able to explain it appropriately.
We model cross-country variations of the microfounded economic freedom-corruption relationship using multilevel models. Additionally, we analyze this relationship by disentangling the determinants for several components of economic freedom because not all areas affect corruption equally.
The results show that the extent of the macro-effects on the measures of (micro)economic freedom for corruption, identified by the degree of economic development of a country, can explain why a lack of competition policies and government regulations may yield more corruption. Estimations for Africa and transition economy subsamples confirm our conjectures.
2009-11-19
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18731/1/MPRA_paper_18731.pdf
Pieroni, Luca and d'Agostino, Giorgio (2009): Corruption and the Effects of Economic Freedom.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:18906
2019-09-27T15:31:05Z
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7375626A656374733D4D:4D31:4D3133
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3132
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18906/
Partnership and Local Governance in Romania
Matei, Lucica
Matei, Ani
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
M13 - New Firms ; Startups
O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
As subsystem of the global social system, public administration has got powerful political, social, economic, cultural determinations, being in a complex connection with its environment. Defining the principles of functioning for society, distributive emphasizing the competences for spheres of governance, the relations of operation and representation of the government at various administrative levels, provide to the public administration the attribute of reforming the public sector. Preoccupied by their performance, the national governments, on the background of applying the principles of effectiveness and efficiency, subsidiarity, local autonomy and decentralization, are resizing the intergovernmental relations with the local level. In the context of public service development, the application of the other principles, such as accountability, participation, devolution etc. leads to changes of the borders of the public sector towards the local levels, private and non-profit sectors, groups of local communities or customers. We witness experiments and good practices of decentralization from the central to the local level, or shifting the authority to local governance levels.
The paper aims to emphasize the utility of an instrument of local governance, namely the public-private partnership. Based on the theoretical approaches resulted from the specialized literature and experiences of some countries from the European Union, we shall elaborate a study on the public - private partnership in delivering a local public service at the level of a municipality in Romania
2008-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18906/1/MPRA_paper_18906.pdf
Matei, Lucica and Matei, Ani (2008): Partnership and Local Governance in Romania.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:19491
2019-09-30T11:13:50Z
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7375626A656374733D43:4335:433532
7375626A656374733D4C:4C33:4C3338
7375626A656374733D48:4831:483131
7375626A656374733D48:4837:483735
7375626A656374733D48:4838:483833
7375626A656374733D48:4837:483736
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/19491/
Citizen Satisfaction with Local Public Policies: A Spanish Case Study Based on Image Strategy
Ortigueira, Luis C.
C52 - Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
L38 - Public Policy
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
H76 - State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories
The control is one of the factors that can contribute to the success of any organization. In this paper, research for one of the most important control types is presented: the management and evaluation of the local public policies. The research determines citizen satisfaction with local services of a public organization; and, also the criteria, analysis and prescriptions of a different group of experts. Application of this research to a significantly sized municipal results in a descriptive, explicative and prescriptive model system being offered that will greatly assist those responsible at the moment in which they formulate or reformulate performance level tests of services, social events, programs and policies.
2010-01-25
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/19491/1/MPRA_paper_19491.pdf
Ortigueira, Luis C. (2010): Citizen Satisfaction with Local Public Policies: A Spanish Case Study Based on Image Strategy.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:19835
2019-09-27T04:24:21Z
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7375626A656374733D50:5031:503136
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/19835/
Public Choice: an Overview
Borooah, Vani
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
P16 - Political Economy
Public Choice begins with the observation that in politics, as in economics, individuals and institutions compete for scarce resources and that, therefore, the same methods of analyses used by economists to explain the behaviour of consumers and producers might also serve well to explain the behaviour of governments and other (allegedly) “public-spirited” organisations . As Tullock (1988) succinctly put it, Public Choice is "the invasion of politics by economics". Public Choice derives its rationale from the fact that, in many areas, 'political' and 'economic' considerations interact so that a proper understanding of issues in one field requires a complementary understanding of issues in the other. Although the incursion of the analytical methods of economics into political science - which is the hall-mark of Public Choice - began in the 1950s, it was not until at least three decades later that the trickle became a flood. This chapter provides an overview of this field.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/19835/1/MPRA_paper_19835.pdf
Borooah, Vani (2005): Public Choice: an Overview. Published in: Readings in Public Finance (2005): pp. 135-155.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:19987
2019-09-28T04:42:49Z
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7375626A656374733D4D:4D31:4D3133
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/19987/
Partnership and Local Governance in Romania
Matei, Lucica
Matei, Ani
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
M13 - New Firms ; Startups
O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
As subsystem of the global social system, public administration has got powerful political, social, economic, cultural determinations, being in a complex connection with its environment. Defining the principles of functioning for society, distributive emphasizing the competences for spheres of governance, the relations of operation and representation of the government at various administrative levels, provide to the public administration the attribute of reforming the public sector. Preoccupied by their performance, the national governments, on the background of applying the principles of effectiveness and efficiency, subsidiarity, local autonomy and decentralization, are resizing the intergovernmental relations with the local level. In the context of public service development, the application of the other principles, such as accountability, participation, devolution etc. leads to changes of the borders of the public sector towards the local levels, private and non-profit sectors, groups of local communities or customers. We witness experiments and good practices of decentralization from the central to the local level, or shifting the authority to local governance levels.
The paper aims to emphasize the utility of an instrument of local governance, namely the public-private partnership. Based on the theoretical approaches resulted from the specialized literature and experiences of some countries from the European Union, we shall elaborate a study on the public - private partnership in delivering a local public service at the level of a municipality in Romania
2008-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/19987/1/MPRA_paper_19987.pdf
Matei, Lucica and Matei, Ani (2008): Partnership and Local Governance in Romania. Published in: International Journal of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe No. 1 (15 May 2009): pp. 52-76.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:20469
2019-09-28T15:52:34Z
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7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3130
7375626A656374733D4B:4B34:4B3432
7375626A656374733D4A:4A31:4A3136
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20469/
Gender, corruption and sustainable growth in transition countries
Michailova, Julija
Melnykovska, Inna
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
O10 - General
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination
Numerous studies have found negative connection between corruption level and economic development. At the same time few of them demonstrate correlation between women representation in politics and corruption level. This paper analyzes correlation between gender and corruption for a specific sample of countries, sharing common cultural and historical legacy – transition countries. Relationship between higher number of women in parliament and decreasing level of corruption is supported by data. Relations with other forms of women social activity were found to be insignificant. Contribution of this paper to the research literature on this topic is twofold. First analysis on gender and corruption in transition economies has previously not been done. Second, this study could also be used for the practical policies on fighting corruption by application of gender quotas.
2009-05-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20469/1/MPRA_paper_20469.pdf
Michailova, Julija and Melnykovska, Inna (2009): Gender, corruption and sustainable growth in transition countries. Published in: Journal of Applied Economic Sciences , Vol. 4, No. 3(9)_Fall2009 (2009): pp. 387-407.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:20701
2019-10-02T22:36:26Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4835
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20701/
Turkish Local e-Governments: a Longitudinal Study
Aykut, Arslan
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
R5 - Regional Government Analysis
This article is based on a longitudinal exploratory study of the Turkish local e-governments between
September 2005 and December 2006. 3,228 Turkish local governments constitute the sampling framework of this paper.
The first part of the study, which took place in 2005, indicated that only 969 authorities were online. But the second part,
issued at the end of 2006, showed that 1,591 units were online. The purpose of the second study was to explore the
degree of change and how this change occurs in a certain time line among those authorities. Despite some theoretical
studies in this field, no research was held on local e-governments, particularly, in a longitudinal dimension in Turkey.
That’s why this study is unique in terms of covering the overall picture of the local activity on the topic of e-government.
2007
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20701/1/MPRA_paper_20701.pdf
Aykut, Arslan (2007): Turkish Local e-Governments: a Longitudinal Study. Published in: Electronic Journal of E-government , Vol. 5, No. 2 (2007): pp. 95-106.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:20703
2019-09-27T16:35:04Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4837
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20703/
Assessment of the Turkish Local e-Governments: An Empirical Study
Aykut, Arslan
H1 - Structure and Scope of Government
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
R5 - Regional Government Analysis
In this research, we first evaluated the current practices of the Turkish local e-governments. Then, building upon an earlier study of local e-governments in Europe (Key Elements for Electronic Local Authorities’ Networks [KEeLAN], 2002), we compared the Turkish local e-government stages with their European counterparts to give a broader perspective. The basic framework focuses on the evaluation of current practices on the supply side (government), rather than the demand side (citizen). The emphasis of this research is on the evaluation of each web site in terms of nine basic public services (additional sub-services available) comprised of policy making, economic development, personal documents, credit and loans/financial support, education, building permits, environment, culture and leisure, and information dissemination. It is assumed that at least four of those services (randomly) are supplied in a local context among the Member Countries, including Turkey. We suggest the results might provide a deeper understanding of local e-governments in Turkey and lend support to advances in this under-researched area.
2008
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20703/1/MPRA_paper_20703.pdf
Aykut, Arslan (2008): Assessment of the Turkish Local e-Governments: An Empirical Study. Published in: International Journal of Human Sciences , Vol. 5, No. 2 (2008): pp. 1-20.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:20705
2019-09-27T12:00:13Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4831:483131
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20705/
Cross-Cultural Analysiis of European e-Government Adoption
Aykut, Arslan
H1 - Structure and Scope of Government
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
R5 - Regional Government Analysis
In terms of adoption, the topic of e-government has focused on the supply side (or government-related issues) such as
strategies and policy, challenges, technical issues, evaluation of the usability of e-government Websites; however, less
attention has been given to the demand (or citizen’s) perspective. Recent studies of the citizen adoption of e-government
services suggest that trust, security, and transparency are the major issues for e-government adoption. The aim of this study
was to explore whether cross-national differences in the adoption of e-government (Internet users who visited public
authorities’ websites in last three months to obtain information, download, and file forms) are associated with differences
among national cultures as described in Hofstede's model of cultural dimensions (Power Distance, Individualism,
Masculinity, Uncertainty Avoidance and Long-Term Orientation).
2009
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20705/1/MPRA_paper_20705.pdf
Aykut, Arslan (2009): Cross-Cultural Analysiis of European e-Government Adoption. Published in: World Applied Sciences Journal , Vol. 7, No. 9 (2009): pp. 1124-1130.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:21051
2019-10-01T00:43:54Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4835:483534
7375626A656374733D4F:4F34:4F3437
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7375626A656374733D48:4838:483833
7375626A656374733D4F:4F33:4F3331
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/21051/
The productivity of the public sector in OECD countries: eGovernment as driver of efficiency and efficacy
Corsi, Marcella
D'Ippoliti, Carlo
H54 - Infrastructures ; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
This article aims at illustrating a theoretical approach to the analysis of the dynamics of productivity in the public sector, and at presenting a preliminary application of it to the estimation of the impact on productivity of the recent development of e-Government processes in a number of OECD countries.
Our analysis serves a twofold purpose: at the microeconomic level, we set out to provide individual public administrations (PAs) with an instrument to evaluate the benefits, in terms of output, of alternative projects, particularly through a more efficient organisation of the relevant information. At the macroeconomic level, the aim is to highlight a significant relationship between e-Government and economic growth, as an indicator of social wellbeing.
2010-03-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/21051/1/MPRA_paper_21051.pdf
Corsi, Marcella and D'Ippoliti, Carlo (2010): The productivity of the public sector in OECD countries: eGovernment as driver of efficiency and efficacy.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:21195
2019-09-28T14:27:49Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4835:483530
7375626A656374733D48:4834:483430
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7375626A656374733D49:4933:493331
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/21195/
The Size and Composition of Government Spending in Europe and Its Impact on Well-Being
Hessami, Zohal
H50 - General
H40 - General
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
This paper analyses whether large governments in Europe reflect efficient responses to a changing social and economic environment (‘welfare economic view’) as opposed to wasteful spending (‘public choice view’). To this end, the effect of government size on subjective well-being is estimated in a micro dataset covering twelve EU countries from 1990 to 2000. The estimations provide evidence for (i) an inversely U-shaped relationship between public sector size and well-being. (ii) The effect of government size on well-being depends on levels of corruption and decentralization as well as people’s ideological preferences and their position in the income distribution. Finally, (iii) higher levels of well-being could have been achieved by spending more on education and less on social protection.
2010-03-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/21195/1/MPRA_paper_21195.pdf
Hessami, Zohal (2010): The Size and Composition of Government Spending in Europe and Its Impact on Well-Being.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:21519
2019-10-10T20:20:04Z
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7375626A656374733D44:4437:443733
7375626A656374733D48:4831:483131
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433233
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/21519/
A panel study on the relationship between corruption and government size
Go, Kotera
Okada, Keisuke
Samreth, Sovannroeun
D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
Using panel data from 1996 to 2005, this paper shows that the effect of government size on corruption is positive at a low level of democracy, but it is negative at a high level. This finding could fill the gaps in previous studies
whose findings on the relationship between corruption and government size are controversial.
2010-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/21519/1/MPRA_paper_21519.pdf
Go, Kotera and Okada, Keisuke and Samreth, Sovannroeun (2010): A panel study on the relationship between corruption and government size.
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22045/
Impact of Social Safety Net Programs In Seasonal Deprivation
Khaleque, Khaleque
Suborna, Bubarna
Baqui, Baqui
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Around the globe, there are varying types of social safety net instruments used by the governments, NGOs, microfinance institutions and private entities. The extent of hardship and welfare of the vulnerable and poor households largely depends on the effectiveness and adequate coverage of these safety net measures. Researchers have found in large number of instances that these instruments are quite useful and have substantial welfare and anti poverty impact on the recipient households. monga is a recurrent case of seasonal deprivation that forces a large number of households in the northern region namely – Greater Rangpur, suffer from occasional starvation, consumption rationing and induces poor households to sell advance labor, crops and assets. The Bangladesh government has been operating a number of social safety net programs – cash or in kind - in this part to reduce the vulnerability of households during monga pledging a long term solution. The study examines the impact of the social safety net programs on the welfare of the poor households during seasonal deprivation –called monga, in the five districts of Greater Rangpur namely Lalmonirhat. Nilphamari, Kurigram, Gaibandha and Rangpur. The study finds that VGD/VGF has strong positive effect in reducing poverty while old age pension has no such contribution. The findings also suggest that highly vulnerable groups such as day laborers, beggars are left out from the benefit of social safety net programs due to their limited coverage and size.
2008-11-28
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22045/1/MPRA_paper_22045.pdf
Khaleque, Khaleque and Suborna, Bubarna and Baqui, Baqui (2008): Impact of Social Safety Net Programs In Seasonal Deprivation.
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22865/
Was Shari'ah indeed the culprit?
Cizakca, Murat
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
N00 - General
G30 - General
Why is the Islamic world, once the centre the medieval world, now lagging so far behind? The importance of the topic has attracted economic historians trying to explain this dramatic story of economic decline. Among the various explanations those provided by Kuran concerning the alleged rigidity of Islamic jurisprudence and the Islamic law of inheritance are best known. In this article I will closely examine his views and provide an alternative explanation as to why Islamic companies could not expand beyond a certain size during the early modern age.
2010
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22865/1/MPRA_paper_22865.pdf
Cizakca, Murat (2010): Was Shari'ah indeed the culprit?
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23270/
Prospects of liberalization for S&T policies in Russia: institutional analysis
Kirdina, Svetlana
O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
K11 - Property Law
P00 - General
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
B52 - Institutional ; Evolutionary
D42 - Monopoly
E61 - Policy Objectives ; Policy Designs and Consistency ; Policy Coordination
O52 - Europe
B41 - Economic Methodology
The objective of the paper is to define the trajectory of economic institutional reforms in Russia as a framework of S&T policies. The methodology of this research is based upon the institutional matrices theory (Кирдина, 2001; Kirdina, 2003). The hypothesis claims that the “institutional nature” of Russia defines its prospects of liberalization and needs the active implementation of liberal market institutions policy only within a framework of modernization of redistributive state economic system. Modern S&T policy in Russia demonstrates the implications of such kind of development. The new institutional form of State Corporation that is non-profit organization under government regulation has been widely developed for last 3 years. The main sphere of State Corporations activity is high-tech development. The share of State Corporations in the state budget is more than 20% and it is constantly increasing.
2010-05-24
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23270/1/MPRA_paper_23270.pdf
Kirdina, Svetlana (2010): Prospects of liberalization for S&T policies in Russia: institutional analysis. Published in: Sociology of Science and Technology , Vol. 1, No. 2 (June 2010): pp. 10-28.
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