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Emigration, remittances and corruption experience of those staying behind

Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha Maria - 2014

We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying in the countries of origin. We hypothesize that the effects of emigration on corruption can be both positive (via migrant value transfer) and negative (via misuse of monetary...

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Proud to belong : the impact of ethics training on police officers in Ghana

Harris, Donna; Borcan, Oana; Serra, Danila; Telli, Henry; … - 2024

We examine the impact of ethics and integrity training on police officers in Ghana through a randomized field experiment. The program, informed by theoretical work on the role of identity and motivation in organizations, aimed to re-activate intrinsic motivations to serve the public, and to...

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Changing the rules : A unilateral approach to non-tariff barriers

Hewson, Victoria - 2022

In framing its ongoing relationship with the EU, and a new external trade policy, the UK is in a unique position to adopt one particular, radical free trade policy: a policy of unilateral recognition of the regulations of other territories for the acceptance of goods for the UK market. But such...

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Powering Up : How Will the Digital Markets Unit Affect Competition and Innovation?

Hewson, Victoria; Veljanovski, Cento G. - 2022

their business models and technologies.This ‘central planning’, reminiscent of the regulation of old-style utility … receive reduced services.The DMU will instil a precautionary mentality to regulation that is at odds with the disruptive and …

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Regulation and UK retailing productivity : evidence from micro data

Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. -- Productivity ; retail ; regulation …

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The effect of statutory sick pay regulations on workers' health

Halla, Martin; Pech, Susanne; Zweimüller, Martina - 2015

Social insurance programs typically comprise sick leave insurance. An important policy parameter is how the cost of sick leave are shared between workers, firms, and the social security system. We show that this sharing rule affects not only absence behavior, but also workers' subsequent health....

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Does Britain Need a Financial Regulator?

Arthur, Terry; Booth, Philip - 2021

Statutory Regulation, Private Regulation and Financial MarketsOnly a generation ago, UK investment markets were … accountability, nor do they have incentives to develop appropriate systems of regulation.This monograph shows that the arguments in … favour of statutory regulation are unconvincing and have weakened as the potential for international competition between …

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Redefining the Poverty Debate – Why a War on Markets is No Substitute for a War on Poverty

Niemietz, Kristian Peter - 2021

New IEA research finds a market-oriented anti-poverty policy could lead to families being £750 a month better offExecutive Summary:In the past intellectual movements promoting free trade in particular and a free economy more generally were regarded as having a pro-poor agenda. The current...

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Rent building, rent sharing : a panel country-industry empirical analysis

Askenazy, Philippe; Cette, Gilbert; Maarek, Paul - 2012

, decrease with anti-competitive regulation in upstream sectors and increase with the industry specific output gap; ii) decrease … with the national output gap, increase with the national employment rate and decrease with employment protection regulation …

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In Focus : The Case for Privatising the BBC

Booth, Philip; Bourne, Ryan; Congdon, Tim; Davies, Stephen - 2021

In the past, the use of a compulsory levy on television sets (a licence fee) to finance the BBC could be justified given the problem of spectrum scarcity and the fact that television signals were a public good (i.e. there was effectively a zero marginal cost of an additional user receiving the...

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