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American Economic Review Vol. 98 No. 1 2008

Bureaucrats or Politicians? Comment

Fuhito Kojima

Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Abstract

Alesina and Tabellini (2007) investigate the normative criteria for allocating policy tasks to bureaucrats versus politicians. While they establish criteria with respect to a number of parameters, they do not give a criterion with respect to the degree of imperfect monitoring. We establish an unambiguous criterion about imperfect monitoring.

DOI
10.1257/aer.98.1.561
Volume
98
Issue
1
Pages
561-562
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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