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Capture and Governance at Local and National Levels
- P. Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee
- Political Science
- 1 May 2000
135 Despite the importance of this issue, not much systematic research appears to have been devoted to assessing the relative susceptibility of national and local governments to interestgroup…
Optimal Auditing, Insurance, and Redistribution
- Dilip Mookherjee, I. Png
- Economics
- 1 May 1989
A Decomposition Analysis of the Trend in UK Income Inequality
- Dilip Mookherjee, A. Shorrocks
- Economics
- 1 December 1982
Post war Britain has experienced a number of dramatic demographic and social changes that have undoubtedly influenced the distribution of income. There has been a rise in the number of pensioners,…
Decentralizing antipoverty program delivery in developing countries
- P. Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee
- Political Science, Economics
- 1 April 2005
Corruptible Law Enforcers: How Should They Be Compensated?
- Dilip Mookherjee, I. Png
- Economics
- 1995
The authors study the optimal compensation policy for a corruptible inspector charged with monitoring pollution from a factory. Their utilitarian approach focuses on the trade-off among corruption,…
Evolving Aspirations and Cooperation
- R. Karandikar, Dilip Mookherjee, Debraj Ray, F. Vega-Redondo
- Economics
- 1 June 1998
A model of "satisficing" behavior in the repeated Prisoners Dilemma is studied. Each player has an aspiration at each date, and takes an action. [S]he switches from the action played in the previous…
Optimal Incentive Schemes with Many Agents
- Dilip Mookherjee
- Economics
- 1 July 1984
The Grossman-Hart principal-agent model of moral hazard is extended to the multiple agent case to explore the use of relative performance in optimal incentive contracting. Under the assumption that…
Decentralization, Hierarchies, and Incentives: A Mechanism Design Perspective
- Dilip Mookherjee
- Economics
- 1 May 2006
Separation of ownership from management, multidivisional firm organizations, delegation of production decisions to worker teams, delegation of pricing and advertising decisions to retail franchisers,…
Pro-poor targeting and accountability of local governments in West Bengal
- P. Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee
- Economics
- 1 April 2006
The Environmental Impact of Poverty: Evidence from Firewood Collection in Rural Nepal
- J. Baland, P. Bardhan, Sanghamitra Das, Dilip Mookherjee, R. Sarkar
- EconomicsEconomic Development and Cultural Change
- 1 October 2010
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