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Bureaucratic Structure, Regulatory Quality and Entrepreneurship in a Comparative Perspective: Cross-Sectional and Panel Data Evidence
(2014-07)
This paper examines the effect of meritocratic recruitment and tenure protection in public bureaucracies on regulatory quality and business entry rates in a global sample. Utilizing a cross-country measure on the extent ...
The Wealth of Regions: Government Quality and Entrepreneurship in Europe
(2012-10)
This paper argues that government quality – operationalized as the ability of government to treat all their citizens in an impartial way – levels the ‘playing field’ for economic agents with and without connections to ...
The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 (Wave III): Report
(2021-03)
The Quality of Government Expert Survey (QoG Expert Survey) is a research project aimed at documenting the organizational design of public bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior in countries around the world. This report ...
Credible Enforcement Before Credible Commitment: Exploring the Importance of Sequencing
(2013-03)
States that are both strong and democratic are the most capable of delivering human development. Existing rational choice accounts of collective action and credible commitment have provided us with the answer as to why ...
The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 (Wave III): Report
(2021)
The Quality of Government Expert Survey (QoG Expert Survey) is a research project aimed at documenting the organizational design of public bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior in countries around the world. This report ...
Land Property Rights, Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Panel 1000-2015 CE
(2021-03)
Since the transition to agricultural production, property rights to land have been a key institution for
economic development. Clearly defined land rights provide economic agents with increased access
to credit, secure ...
Provider Ownership and Service Quality: Evidence from Swedish Residential Care Homes
(2021-09)
The provision of social services by private providers is widespread in OECD countries, but the jury is still out on whether marketization has improved service quality. This paper seeks to nuance existing debate by examining ...
Marketization and the Quality of Residential Elderly Care in Sweden
(2018-11)
Against a backdrop of increased levels of marketization of welfare services in OECD countries, this article aims to shed light on the separate effects of private ownership and competition on service quality. Using residential ...