Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/174923 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6800
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study the local favoritism of appointed German state ministers. Matching hand-collected data on ministers’ place of residence to a sample of more than 8,000 west German municipalities during the period 1994–2013, we find that the home municipality of a state minister experiences higher employment growth than control municipalities. Given the institutional context, this effect is ostensibly due to apolitical favoritism (home bias) rather than electoral considerations. We conclude that favoritism may lead to a distortion in the allocation of public resources even in contexts with strong political institutions.
Subjects: 
distributive politics
favoritism
employment growth
JEL: 
D73
H70
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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