In all modern bureaucracies, politicians retain some discretion in public employment decisions, which may lead to frictions in the selection process if political connections substitute for individual competence.
Brooks, Donovan and Johnson (2020) show how exogenous variation in individual-level interactions identifies critical diffusion parameters in a wide class of general equilibrium firm diffusion models.
Application to the 34th Regular ERG call under the PEDL initiative is now closed. Proposals submitted by 23:59 GMT on 30 November 2020 will be considered for funding.
