What Transparency Can Do When Incentives Fail : : An Analysis of Rent Capture / / Elisabeth Paul, Era Dabla-Norris

• Autore: Paul Elisabeth
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (35 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Corruption - Developing countries - Prevention - Econometric models; Rent (Economic theory) - Econometric models; Transparency in government - Econometric models; Labor; Taxation; Criminology; Demography; Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General; Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity; Demographic Economics: General; Corporate crime; white-collar crime; Labour; income economics; Public finance & taxation; Civil service & public sector; Population & demography; Tax incentives; Civil service; Population and demographics; Population
• Soggetto geografico: Bolivia
• Altri autori: Dabla-NorrisEra
• Note generali: "June 2006."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. A STYLIZED MODEL""; ""III. RESULTS AND IMPLICATIONS""; ""IV. THE ROLE OF TRANSPARENCY""; ""V. CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""
• Sommario/riassunto: This paper analyzes the pervasiveness and persistence of rent seeking, misgovernance, and public sector inefficiency in many developing and transition economies. We formalize evidence from country experiences and empirical studies into a stylized analytical framework that reflects realistic constraints faced in these countries. Our work departs from the standard economic literature by assuming that (i) the relationship between the government and its population is regulated through an implicit social consensus; (ii) traditional incentives (in the form of public expenditure controls, sanctions, or monetary incentives to perform) are, for various reasons, ineffective in many of these countries; and (iii) the persistence of high corruption reflects a very stable equilibrium, which in turn reflects the fact that several constraints are simultaneously binding. We argue that, when traditional incentives fail, transparency-information provision and disclosure, together with the means to use it-by relaxing different constraints, can contribute to improving public outcomes.
• Titolo autorizzato: What Transparency Can Do When Incentives Fail
• ISBN: 1-4623-9722-0; 1-4519-9339-0; 1-282-47425-1; 1-4527-0241-1; 9786613821782
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788525903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2006/146