State Capture Analysis : How to Quantitatively Analyze the Regulatory Abuse by Business-State Relationships
Abundant qualitative evidence reveals how public and private actors abuse regulations to seek rents, impede reforms, and distort the economy. However, empirical evidence of such behavior, including its economic costs, remains limited. For that reas...
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okr-10986-330942021-05-25T09:31:00Z State Capture Analysis : How to Quantitatively Analyze the Regulatory Abuse by Business-State Relationships Fiebelkorn, Andreas STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES REGULATION STATE CAPTURE STATE CAPACITY POLITICAL CONNECTIONS ACCESS TO FINANCE PUBLIC SECTOR GOVERNANCE TAX EVASION SUBSIDIES Abundant qualitative evidence reveals how public and private actors abuse regulations to seek rents, impede reforms, and distort the economy. However, empirical evidence of such behavior, including its economic costs, remains limited. For that reason, the objective of this paper is to help practitioners who seek to quantitatively analyze state capture make better use of experience, methodologies, and potential data sources. Based on a comprehensive body of existing empirical studies, it provides guidance to analyze state capture and its impact on the economy. Chapter one discusses the concept of state capture and its relevance for economic development. Chapter two presents the main avenues of how policies have been captured and the empirical evidence of their implications. Chapter three provides an analytical framework for state capture analysis and discusses various applied approaches. The chapter is organized into three components required for the assessment: (i) evidence of political connectedness, which discusses data collection methods and methodologies of analyzing political connections; (ii) evidence of de jure and de facto mechanisms, through which firms receive policy favors; and (iii) firm-level indicators to measure performance differences between politically connected and nonconnected firms. Finally, two annexes provide a list of potential data sources and an extensive compilation of studies that have empirically examined state capture. 2019-12-24T15:50:26Z 2019-12-24T15:50:26Z 2019-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/785311576571172286/State-Capture-Analysis-How-to-Quantitatively-Analyze-the-Regulatory-Abuse-by-Business-State-Relationships http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33094 English Governance Discussion Paper,No. 2; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper |
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STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES REGULATION STATE CAPTURE STATE CAPACITY POLITICAL CONNECTIONS ACCESS TO FINANCE PUBLIC SECTOR GOVERNANCE TAX EVASION SUBSIDIES Fiebelkorn, Andreas State Capture Analysis : How to Quantitatively Analyze the Regulatory Abuse by Business-State Relationships |
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Abundant qualitative evidence reveals
how public and private actors abuse regulations to seek
rents, impede reforms, and distort the economy. However,
empirical evidence of such behavior, including its economic
costs, remains limited. For that reason, the objective of
this paper is to help practitioners who seek to
quantitatively analyze state capture make better use of
experience, methodologies, and potential data sources. Based
on a comprehensive body of existing empirical studies, it
provides guidance to analyze state capture and its impact on
the economy. Chapter one discusses the concept of state
capture and its relevance for economic development. Chapter
two presents the main avenues of how policies have been
captured and the empirical evidence of their implications.
Chapter three provides an analytical framework for state
capture analysis and discusses various applied approaches.
The chapter is organized into three components required for
the assessment: (i) evidence of political connectedness,
which discusses data collection methods and methodologies of
analyzing political connections; (ii) evidence of de jure
and de facto mechanisms, through which firms receive policy
favors; and (iii) firm-level indicators to measure
performance differences between politically connected and
nonconnected firms. Finally, two annexes provide a list of
potential data sources and an extensive compilation of
studies that have empirically examined state capture. |
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Fiebelkorn, Andreas |
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Fiebelkorn, Andreas |
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Fiebelkorn, Andreas |
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State Capture Analysis : How to Quantitatively Analyze the Regulatory Abuse by Business-State Relationships |
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State Capture Analysis : How to Quantitatively Analyze the Regulatory Abuse by Business-State Relationships |
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State Capture Analysis : How to Quantitatively Analyze the Regulatory Abuse by Business-State Relationships |
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State Capture Analysis : How to Quantitatively Analyze the Regulatory Abuse by Business-State Relationships |
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State Capture Analysis : How to Quantitatively Analyze the Regulatory Abuse by Business-State Relationships |
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state capture analysis : how to quantitatively analyze the regulatory abuse by business-state relationships |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2019 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/785311576571172286/State-Capture-Analysis-How-to-Quantitatively-Analyze-the-Regulatory-Abuse-by-Business-State-Relationships http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33094 |
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