This paper investigates the trade-offs between local elites and state agents as tax collectors in low-capacity states. We study a randomized policy experiment assigning neighborhoods of large Congolese city to property collection by chiefs or agents. Chief raised compliance 3.2 percentage points, increasing revenue 44 percent. Chiefs collected more bribes but did not undermine morale trust gove...

The emergence of collaborative approaches in innovation policy and regional governance has increased expectations for universities to engage strategy making assume broader roles responsibilities. Nonetheless, complexities inherent the process, context universities’ own institutional organisational capacity are often ignored or under-explained when framing roles. Although these frequently introd...

This paper analyzes the role of yardstick competition for improving political decisions. We examine how performance comparisons across jurisdictions affect the agency problem resulting from uncertainty about politicians (adverse selection) and their policies (moral hazard). We study two forms of inefficiency: the provision of wasteful project and the failure to provide useful project .We find a...

Much attention has been paid to the influence of the institutional form of waste collection on costs. We extend this literature in three directions by including the unit-based pricing system. First, we show that unit-based pricing systems are more important from a cost-minimizing point of view than the institutional mode of waste collection. In particular, the bag-based and frequency-based pric...

A theoretical analysis considers the impact of a typical system of redistributive “fiscal equalization” transfers on the taxing effort of local jurisdictions. More specifically, it shows that the marginal contribution rate, i.e. the rate at which an increase in the tax base reduces those transfers, might be positively associated with the local tax rate while the volume of grants received is lik...

Amaç: Alerjik rinit toplumda sık görülen ve poliklinik muayenesi ile tanı konulan hastalıklardan biridir. Bu araştırmada hastaneye başvurup alerjik tanısı alanlarda deri prick testi yapılma sıklığı buna etki eden faktörlerin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Gereç-Yöntem: Araştırma Sakarya Üniversitesi Eğitim Hastanesine 2018 2019 yıllarında J30 (Vazomotor Rinit) alt kodlarını (J30.0, J30.1, J30.2, J3...

En Belgique, nombreux sont ceux qui ont été confrontés au télétravail intensif suite à la crise de Covid-19. À partir l’analyse données individuelles l’Enquête sur les Forces Travail, notre recherche s’est attachée approfondir connaissances propension avant cette crise, en Belgique et Bruxelles. Pour ce faire, nous avons é...