Rent seeking bureaucracies and oversight in a simple growth model

Pierre Daniel Sarte

No 98-03, Working Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Abstract: Following recent cross-country empirical work, research on public policy and growth has come to examine the impact of inefficient or corrupt bureaucracies. Most of this work has emphasized the interactions of bureaucracies with private markets. By contrast, this paper focuses on the relationship between rent-seeking bureaucracies and their political authority. We show that when oversight is relatively costly, as in many developing economies, the political authority exercises little monitoring of its agencies which reduces the effectiveness of productive government spending. Moreover, when the technology used to provide public services is poor, bureaus better succeed in requesting overly large budgets before triggering any monitoring. Both of these characteristics contribute to reducing the growth rate of already poor economies.

Keywords: Economic development; Government lending; Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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