Accountability and Incentives of Appointed and Elected Public Officials

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Review of Economics and Statistics

• Publication date

  2017-06-18

• Fields of study

  Economics, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1162/REST_a_00684
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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