Politicians at Work: The Private Returns and Social Costs of Political Connections
By F. Cingano, P. Pinotti. 2013
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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics
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In Accounting
- Enrico Sette
- S. Mocetti
- Ufuk Akcigit
- Francesco D’Amuri
- Edoardo Teso
- James Kai Sing Kung
- F. Lotti
- David Schoenherr
In Economics and Econometrics
- S. Mocetti
- Francesco D’Amuri
- Ting Chen
- Salomé Baslandze
- F. Lotti
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- Filippo Scoccianti
- Ufuk Akcigit
Citations in the corpus
- Productivity growth in Italy: a tale of a slow-motion change (2018, positive): “Looking at the political connections of Italian firms in the period 1985-1997, Cingano and Pinotti (2013) find that firms’ productivity dynamics cannot account for the increase in market power associated with political connections, and that the gains in market 47 The data includes civil litigious…”
- Busting the “Princelings”: The Campaign Against Corruption in China’s Primary Land Market* (2018, background): “Reported in columns (9) and (10) of Table IX, these earlier campaigns have no significant effect whatsoever in reducing the price discount offered by local officials.”
- Connecting to Power: Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics (2018, result): “This second effect, named the grabbing hand hypothesis (Shleifer and Vishny, 2002), is consistent with the results provided by Cingano and Pinotti (2013) on political connections in Italy.”
- Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations (2020, background): “Finally, we contribute to a long literature on the role of political connections for firms (Fisman, 2001; Khwaja and Mian, 2005; Faccio, 2006; Faccio et al., 2006; Cingano and Pinotti, 2013; Schoenherr, 2017) and individuals (Markussen and Tarp, 2014; Gagliarducci and Manacorda, 2017; Folke et al.”
- Discretion and Supplier Selection in Public Procurement (2020, background): “Closest to our paper, Coviello et al. (2018) show that discretion is associated with larger chances of repeated wins by the same firm, but appears to have limited effects on expost execution of public works in Italian municipalities.”