Andreas P Kyriacou
Biographic Data
| ID | 366509 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas P Kyriacou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas P |
| FAMILY NAME | Kyriacou |
| SIGNATURE | KYRIACOU A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Girona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9571-2833 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Corruption and public healthcare quality in the European Union: Evidence from Europe’s regions
Background Corruption in the public healthcare sector can undermine the efficient allocation of resources and negatively affect health outcomes. In the European Union (EU), it may take several forms including bribes to medical professionals in return for medical attention, public procurement corruption, or improper relationships between healthcare staff and suppliers of drugs or equipment. However, empirical evidence on its impact remains limited…
Fiscal Decentralization and Health Care Access and Quality: Evidence from Local Governments around the World
In this article, we consider how decentralizing health spending to local governments affects health care access and quality. Based on data from forty-nine countries around the world from 1996 to 2015, we find that decentralizing health spending is inimical to timely and effective health care. We also explore the role of two specific channels through which fiscal decentralization can undermine health outcomes: externalities and foregone economies …
Populism and the rule of law: The importance of institutional legacies
Existing work sees populist governments undermining the rule of law because they seek to dismantle institutional constraints on their personalistic plebiscitarian rule. We argue that populist rulers pose a greater threat to legal impartiality, equality, and compliance when they face a legacy of weak rule of law. We find empirical support for this assertion after applying synthetic control methods to a cross‐country sample that includes up to 51 p…
Clientelism and fiscal redistribution: Evidence across countries
This article marshals empirical evidence from a cross-section of up to 87 countries to consider the impact of clientelism on fiscal redistribution in the form of direct taxes and public transfers. Clientelism may directly undermine fiscal redistribution towards poorer individuals because their political support is cheaper to buy, political patrons will limit redistribution to keep clients dependent and, moreover, will eschew fiscal policies that …
Does decentralising public procurement affect the quality of governance? Evidence from local government in Europe
In this article, we consider the impact on the quality of governance when assigning public procurement spending to local authorities. While fiscal decentralisation is generally expected to yield improvements in governance because it empowers better informed voters and public officials who can tailor policies to local needs, we hypothesise that the expected benefits may not emerge when decentralising public procurement because this may facilitate …
Maternity leave and female labor force participation: Evidence from 159 countries
Inequality and Governance
Governance matters for social welfare. Better governed countries are richer, happier and have fewer social and environmental problems. Good governance implies that public sector agents act impartially. It manifests itself in the form of equality before the law, an independent and professional public administration and the control of corruption. This book considers how economic inequality – both interpersonal and interethnic – can affect the quali…
Local Decentralization and the Quality of Public Services in Europe
Redistributive efficiency in 28 developed economies
This article analyses the redistributive efficiency of social transfers and direct taxation in a panel of 28 developed economies during the period 1995–2010. In order to explore how redistribution is achieved through these fiscal policies, a two-stage approach is applied. First, we evaluate their redistributive efficiency – the degree of redistribution attained for a given level of transfers and taxes – using data envelopment analysis (DEA). We f…
Regional inequalities, fiscal decentralization and government quality
Regional inequalities, fiscal decentralization and government quality. Regional Studies. There are theoretical arguments supporting the view that regional income inequalities, the degree of fiscal decentralization and the quality of government are simultaneously determined. This article argues that existing empirical work has failed to deal adequately with this possibility. In light of this, it applies a simultaneous equation model, which account…
Irrationality
At the individual level irrationality emerges when people fail to maximize a well‐ordered preference set or insofar as they entertain systematically biased beliefs about choice alternatives. Assuming that individuals have unbiased estimates of the price of irrationality, they will tend to behave more rationally as the private cost of irrational behavior increases. At the aggregate level, irrational outcomes may be less likely in market settings b…
Institutional checks and corruption: The effect of formal agenda access on governance
Legislative checks give whoever wields them influence over policy making. It is argued in this article that this influence implies the ability not only to affect legislative content, but also to direct public resources toward private ends. Rational politicians should use access to checks to make themselves better off – for example, by biasing policy toward private interests or creating opportunities to draw directly from the public till. Disincen…
An Examination of the Long-Term Determinants of Constitutional Endurance: Geography, Diversity, and Historical Legacies
Elkins, Ginsburg, and Melton (2009) have empirically examined how constitutional design and contemporaneous environmental factors can affect the survival of constitutions. However, little is known about the extent to which long-term factors may affect constitutional endurance. This work extends the epidemiological model developed by those authors to study whether geography, ethnolinguistic or genetic diversity within countries, and historical leg…
Fiscal decentralization and regional disparities: The importance of good governance
Construction corrupts: Empirical evidence from a panel of 42 countries
Regional Inequalities and the Electoral Success of Regional Parties: Evidence from the OECD
Income inequalities across regions will tend to engender redistributive conflicts about the territorial distribution of resources. The salience of territorial redistribution in the context of regional inequalities is likely to mobilize support for regional parties in national elections since territorial redistribution is decided at the national level. Thus, regional inequalities will favor the electoral success of regional parties in national-lev…
Secessionism and the Quality of Government: Evidence from a Sample of OECD Countries
In this article we test the hypothesis that secessionism reduces government quality because secessionist threats elicit a response from central governments concerned with the territorial integrity of the state and this, in turn, channels attention and resources away from necessary governance reforms. We consider the link between secessionism and government quality based on an original data set that reflects the electoral success of secessionist p…
The Impact of Structural and Cohesion Funds on Eurozone Convergence, 1990–2010
Maynou L., Saez M., Kyriacou A. and Bacaria J. The impact of Structural and Cohesion Funds on Eurozone convergence, 1990–2010, Regional Studies. Ever since the launch of the European integration process, and in particular in the context of Economic and Monetary Union, the European Union has endeavoured to facilitate economic convergence across Europe by providing funds to its poorer regions and countries. The main objective of this paper is to an…
Ethnic segregation and the quality of government: The importance of regional diversity
Rational Irrationality and Group Size: The Effect of Biased Beliefs on Individual Contributions Towards Collective Goods
The price of irrationality or belief manipulation varies as we move from small to large group settings. Individual members of large groups can more cheaply bias downwards their beliefs as to the immorality of their free-riding thereby circumventing internal moral constraints. The relative anonymity inherent to large number settings moreover reduces social pressures against free-riding stemming from some common ethical or moral norms. Both selfish…
George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton: Identity economics. How our identities shape our work, wages, and well-being
Intrinsic Motivation and the Logic of Collective Action: The Impact of Selective Incentives
I integrate the notion of intrinsic motivation, applied to economics most notably byFrey (1997), into the logic of individual contributions toward collective goods as analyzed sinceOlson ([1965] 1971). This illuminates the many and various ways through which the intrinsic motivation to contribute toward such goods can be crowded out by the application of selective incentives. I suggest that the crowding-out effect increases the cost to society of…
A Theory of Menu Federalism: Decentralization by Political Agreement
A ‘just and lasting solution’ to the Cyprus problem: In search of institutional viability
This article examines the possible nature of a ‘just and lasting solution’ to the Cyprus Problem. Four factors are seen to affect the viability of a solution, namely, the relative capacity of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides to impose costs in the event of either withdrawing from inter‐ethnic co‐operation, the extent to which each party perceives the solution to be fair, the continuous influence of informal rules that may promote ethnic identi…
A Comment on Müller's “Unveiling of the Veil of Uncertainty”
Regional inequalities, fiscal decentralization and government quality
Regional inequalities, fiscal decentralization and government quality. Regional Studies. There are theoretical arguments supporting the view that regional income inequalities, the degree of fiscal decentralization and the quality of government are simultaneously determined. This article argues that existing empirical work has failed to deal adequately with this possibility. In light of this, it applies a simultaneous equation model, which account…
Fiscal decentralization and regional disparities: The importance of good governance
A Theory of Menu Federalism: Decentralization by Political Agreement
The Impact of Structural and Cohesion Funds on Eurozone Convergence, 1990–2010
Maynou L., Saez M., Kyriacou A. and Bacaria J. The impact of Structural and Cohesion Funds on Eurozone convergence, 1990–2010, Regional Studies. Ever since the launch of the European integration process, and in particular in the context of Economic and Monetary Union, the European Union has endeavoured to facilitate economic convergence across Europe by providing funds to its poorer regions and countries. The main objective of this paper is to an…
Maternity leave and female labor force participation: Evidence from 159 countries
Local Decentralization and the Quality of Public Services in Europe
Does decentralising public procurement affect the quality of governance? Evidence from local government in Europe
In this article, we consider the impact on the quality of governance when assigning public procurement spending to local authorities. While fiscal decentralisation is generally expected to yield improvements in governance because it empowers better informed voters and public officials who can tailor policies to local needs, we hypothesise that the expected benefits may not emerge when decentralising public procurement because this may facilitate …
Institutional checks and corruption: The effect of formal agenda access on governance
Legislative checks give whoever wields them influence over policy making. It is argued in this article that this influence implies the ability not only to affect legislative content, but also to direct public resources toward private ends. Rational politicians should use access to checks to make themselves better off – for example, by biasing policy toward private interests or creating opportunities to draw directly from the public till. Disincen…
Construction corrupts: Empirical evidence from a panel of 42 countries
Regional Inequalities and the Electoral Success of Regional Parties: Evidence from the OECD
Income inequalities across regions will tend to engender redistributive conflicts about the territorial distribution of resources. The salience of territorial redistribution in the context of regional inequalities is likely to mobilize support for regional parties in national elections since territorial redistribution is decided at the national level. Thus, regional inequalities will favor the electoral success of regional parties in national-lev…
Intrinsic Motivation and the Logic of Collective Action: The Impact of Selective Incentives
I integrate the notion of intrinsic motivation, applied to economics most notably byFrey (1997), into the logic of individual contributions toward collective goods as analyzed sinceOlson ([1965] 1971). This illuminates the many and various ways through which the intrinsic motivation to contribute toward such goods can be crowded out by the application of selective incentives. I suggest that the crowding-out effect increases the cost to society of…
Secessionism and the Quality of Government: Evidence from a Sample of OECD Countries
In this article we test the hypothesis that secessionism reduces government quality because secessionist threats elicit a response from central governments concerned with the territorial integrity of the state and this, in turn, channels attention and resources away from necessary governance reforms. We consider the link between secessionism and government quality based on an original data set that reflects the electoral success of secessionist p…
Ethnic segregation and the quality of government: The importance of regional diversity
Rational Irrationality and Group Size: The Effect of Biased Beliefs on Individual Contributions Towards Collective Goods
The price of irrationality or belief manipulation varies as we move from small to large group settings. Individual members of large groups can more cheaply bias downwards their beliefs as to the immorality of their free-riding thereby circumventing internal moral constraints. The relative anonymity inherent to large number settings moreover reduces social pressures against free-riding stemming from some common ethical or moral norms. Both selfish…
Fiscal Decentralization and Health Care Access and Quality: Evidence from Local Governments around the World
In this article, we consider how decentralizing health spending to local governments affects health care access and quality. Based on data from forty-nine countries around the world from 1996 to 2015, we find that decentralizing health spending is inimical to timely and effective health care. We also explore the role of two specific channels through which fiscal decentralization can undermine health outcomes: externalities and foregone economies …
Populism and the rule of law: The importance of institutional legacies
Existing work sees populist governments undermining the rule of law because they seek to dismantle institutional constraints on their personalistic plebiscitarian rule. We argue that populist rulers pose a greater threat to legal impartiality, equality, and compliance when they face a legacy of weak rule of law. We find empirical support for this assertion after applying synthetic control methods to a cross‐country sample that includes up to 51 p…
Redistributive efficiency in 28 developed economies
This article analyses the redistributive efficiency of social transfers and direct taxation in a panel of 28 developed economies during the period 1995–2010. In order to explore how redistribution is achieved through these fiscal policies, a two-stage approach is applied. First, we evaluate their redistributive efficiency – the degree of redistribution attained for a given level of transfers and taxes – using data envelopment analysis (DEA). We f…
A ‘just and lasting solution’ to the Cyprus problem: In search of institutional viability
This article examines the possible nature of a ‘just and lasting solution’ to the Cyprus Problem. Four factors are seen to affect the viability of a solution, namely, the relative capacity of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides to impose costs in the event of either withdrawing from inter‐ethnic co‐operation, the extent to which each party perceives the solution to be fair, the continuous influence of informal rules that may promote ethnic identi…
A Comment on Müller's “Unveiling of the Veil of Uncertainty”
A Comment on Müller's “Unveiling of the Veil of Uncertainty”
A ‘just and lasting solution’ to the Cyprus problem: In search of institutional viability
This article examines the possible nature of a ‘just and lasting solution’ to the Cyprus Problem. Four factors are seen to affect the viability of a solution, namely, the relative capacity of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides to impose costs in the event of either withdrawing from inter‐ethnic co‐operation, the extent to which each party perceives the solution to be fair, the continuous influence of informal rules that may promote ethnic identi…
A Theory of Menu Federalism: Decentralization by Political Agreement
George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton: Identity economics. How our identities shape our work, wages, and well-being
Intrinsic Motivation and the Logic of Collective Action: The Impact of Selective Incentives
I integrate the notion of intrinsic motivation, applied to economics most notably byFrey (1997), into the logic of individual contributions toward collective goods as analyzed sinceOlson ([1965] 1971). This illuminates the many and various ways through which the intrinsic motivation to contribute toward such goods can be crowded out by the application of selective incentives. I suggest that the crowding-out effect increases the cost to society of…
Rational Irrationality and Group Size: The Effect of Biased Beliefs on Individual Contributions Towards Collective Goods
The price of irrationality or belief manipulation varies as we move from small to large group settings. Individual members of large groups can more cheaply bias downwards their beliefs as to the immorality of their free-riding thereby circumventing internal moral constraints. The relative anonymity inherent to large number settings moreover reduces social pressures against free-riding stemming from some common ethical or moral norms. Both selfish…
Ethnic segregation and the quality of government: The importance of regional diversity
Secessionism and the Quality of Government: Evidence from a Sample of OECD Countries
In this article we test the hypothesis that secessionism reduces government quality because secessionist threats elicit a response from central governments concerned with the territorial integrity of the state and this, in turn, channels attention and resources away from necessary governance reforms. We consider the link between secessionism and government quality based on an original data set that reflects the electoral success of secessionist p…
The Impact of Structural and Cohesion Funds on Eurozone Convergence, 1990–2010
Maynou L., Saez M., Kyriacou A. and Bacaria J. The impact of Structural and Cohesion Funds on Eurozone convergence, 1990–2010, Regional Studies. Ever since the launch of the European integration process, and in particular in the context of Economic and Monetary Union, the European Union has endeavoured to facilitate economic convergence across Europe by providing funds to its poorer regions and countries. The main objective of this paper is to an…
An Examination of the Long-Term Determinants of Constitutional Endurance: Geography, Diversity, and Historical Legacies
Elkins, Ginsburg, and Melton (2009) have empirically examined how constitutional design and contemporaneous environmental factors can affect the survival of constitutions. However, little is known about the extent to which long-term factors may affect constitutional endurance. This work extends the epidemiological model developed by those authors to study whether geography, ethnolinguistic or genetic diversity within countries, and historical leg…
Fiscal decentralization and regional disparities: The importance of good governance
Construction corrupts: Empirical evidence from a panel of 42 countries
Regional Inequalities and the Electoral Success of Regional Parties: Evidence from the OECD
Income inequalities across regions will tend to engender redistributive conflicts about the territorial distribution of resources. The salience of territorial redistribution in the context of regional inequalities is likely to mobilize support for regional parties in national elections since territorial redistribution is decided at the national level. Thus, regional inequalities will favor the electoral success of regional parties in national-lev…
Regional inequalities, fiscal decentralization and government quality
Regional inequalities, fiscal decentralization and government quality. Regional Studies. There are theoretical arguments supporting the view that regional income inequalities, the degree of fiscal decentralization and the quality of government are simultaneously determined. This article argues that existing empirical work has failed to deal adequately with this possibility. In light of this, it applies a simultaneous equation model, which account…
Irrationality
At the individual level irrationality emerges when people fail to maximize a well‐ordered preference set or insofar as they entertain systematically biased beliefs about choice alternatives. Assuming that individuals have unbiased estimates of the price of irrationality, they will tend to behave more rationally as the private cost of irrational behavior increases. At the aggregate level, irrational outcomes may be less likely in market settings b…
Institutional checks and corruption: The effect of formal agenda access on governance
Legislative checks give whoever wields them influence over policy making. It is argued in this article that this influence implies the ability not only to affect legislative content, but also to direct public resources toward private ends. Rational politicians should use access to checks to make themselves better off – for example, by biasing policy toward private interests or creating opportunities to draw directly from the public till. Disincen…
Redistributive efficiency in 28 developed economies
This article analyses the redistributive efficiency of social transfers and direct taxation in a panel of 28 developed economies during the period 1995–2010. In order to explore how redistribution is achieved through these fiscal policies, a two-stage approach is applied. First, we evaluate their redistributive efficiency – the degree of redistribution attained for a given level of transfers and taxes – using data envelopment analysis (DEA). We f…
Inequality and Governance
Governance matters for social welfare. Better governed countries are richer, happier and have fewer social and environmental problems. Good governance implies that public sector agents act impartially. It manifests itself in the form of equality before the law, an independent and professional public administration and the control of corruption. This book considers how economic inequality – both interpersonal and interethnic – can affect the quali…
Local Decentralization and the Quality of Public Services in Europe
Maternity leave and female labor force participation: Evidence from 159 countries
Does decentralising public procurement affect the quality of governance? Evidence from local government in Europe
In this article, we consider the impact on the quality of governance when assigning public procurement spending to local authorities. While fiscal decentralisation is generally expected to yield improvements in governance because it empowers better informed voters and public officials who can tailor policies to local needs, we hypothesise that the expected benefits may not emerge when decentralising public procurement because this may facilitate …
Clientelism and fiscal redistribution: Evidence across countries
This article marshals empirical evidence from a cross-section of up to 87 countries to consider the impact of clientelism on fiscal redistribution in the form of direct taxes and public transfers. Clientelism may directly undermine fiscal redistribution towards poorer individuals because their political support is cheaper to buy, political patrons will limit redistribution to keep clients dependent and, moreover, will eschew fiscal policies that …
Fiscal Decentralization and Health Care Access and Quality: Evidence from Local Governments around the World
In this article, we consider how decentralizing health spending to local governments affects health care access and quality. Based on data from forty-nine countries around the world from 1996 to 2015, we find that decentralizing health spending is inimical to timely and effective health care. We also explore the role of two specific channels through which fiscal decentralization can undermine health outcomes: externalities and foregone economies …
Populism and the rule of law: The importance of institutional legacies
Existing work sees populist governments undermining the rule of law because they seek to dismantle institutional constraints on their personalistic plebiscitarian rule. We argue that populist rulers pose a greater threat to legal impartiality, equality, and compliance when they face a legacy of weak rule of law. We find empirical support for this assertion after applying synthetic control methods to a cross‐country sample that includes up to 51 p…
Corruption and public healthcare quality in the European Union: Evidence from Europe’s regions
Background Corruption in the public healthcare sector can undermine the efficient allocation of resources and negatively affect health outcomes. In the European Union (EU), it may take several forms including bribes to medical professionals in return for medical attention, public procurement corruption, or improper relationships between healthcare staff and suppliers of drugs or equipment. However, empirical evidence on its impact remains limited…
Economics (23 works) · Political science (19 works) · Public economics (11 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (7 works) · Government (linguistics (7 works) · Law (7 works)