Growth Slowdown in Bureaucratic Economic Systems : An Issue Revisited /

Bureaucratically organized systems tend to be less efficient than economies in which agents are free to choose their output targets, as well as the means to meet them. This paper presents a simple model of planner-manager interactions and shows how bureaucratic economies can end up in a low-effort,...

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Main Author: Bulir, Ales
Other Authors: Brixiova, Zuzana
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/006
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