Investment Choices in Industry
In: The Economic Journal, Band 99, Heft 398, S. 1197
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In: The Economic Journal, Band 99, Heft 398, S. 1197
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ISSN: 0304-3878
In: Third world planning review: TWPR, Band 10, Heft 4
ISSN: 0142-7849
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 11537
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In: A World Bank publication
In: The Journal of Private Equity Spring 2017, 20 (2) 52-68; https://doi.org/10.3905/jpe.2017.20.2.052 .
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In: Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 23-65
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In: Kyklos: international review for social sciences, Band 60, Heft 4, S. 601-616
ISSN: 1467-6435
SUMMARYThere is evidence in the literature that corruption lowers the level of investment and the productivity of capital stock in an economy. This paper extends the literature by presenting evidence that investment allocation decisions are affected in a significant way by corruption. The most commonly used measure of the efficiency of overall investment in an economy is the incremental capital output ratio (ICOR), measured by the ratio of gross investment to the change in the gross domestic product. The inverse of the ICOR measures the productivity of investment in an economy. When the known explanatory factors for inter‐country variation in the ICOR are taken into account, the incidence of corruption has a statistically significant negative effect on the efficiency of investment for a panel of 90–140 countries during 1995–2004. The strength of this effect increases with the incidence of corruption. The econometric model used is robust to unobserved and time‐invariant country fixed effects, feedbacks from current stochastic shocks to subsequent values of the determinants of investment efficiency, and the persistence of efficiency.
This paper examines the impacts of devolving authority for public resource allocation to local governments in a setting of limited electoral control. Such a setting differs from that assumed by seminal formal models of devolution, but describes many developing countries. This study presents a formal model of this setting and tests it using unique data from a natural experiment in rural Ethiopia whereby half of the country's regions were decentralized but not the other half. Employing a spatial regression discontinuity design, this article shows that decentralization strongly improved delivery of agricultural public services, which are of high priority to the central government. In contrast, it did not impact drinking water services, on which the central government places lower priority but citizens place high priority.
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