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Banks perform similar functions all over the world. Nevertheless, the banking systems around the world are very different. This paper analyses how the difference affects local firms as well as small and medium-sized enterprises. For my project, I combine banking and economic data of five EU...
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This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and … revolution by creating a system of patronage and loyalty through corrupt bureaucracy. Competitive corruption patterns are … associated with anarchy and weak dictators, while strong dictators implement a system of monopolistic corruption. Efforts at …
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Whilst a lot has been said about how to fight corruption at tender stage in public procurement, post-tender corruption … relationship between the quality of a country's institutions, in particular its monitoring technologies and corruption, and the …
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This paper investigates the interaction between corruption and infrastructure policy reforms.  I construct a simple … model to illustrate how both an incerase in regulatory autonomy and privatisation may influence the effect of corruption … Latin America and the Caribbean between 1995 and 2007.  I find evidence that greater corruption is associated with lower …
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knows the social cost of a lower grade good. We show that corruption is always detrimental to welfare when governance is …
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with a 0.5% decrease in the probability that a firm will consider corruption to be an obstacle to their current operations … effect on either corruption outcome. …
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financing increases with freedom from corruption, rule of law, quality of regulations, and decreases with court disputes. We …
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provision in-house and privatizing the facility and then outsourcing the production. In particular, we focus on corruption in …
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financing increases with freedom from corruption, rule of law, quality of regulations, and decreases with court disputes. We …
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provision in-house and privatizing the facility and then outsourcing the production. In particular, we focus on corruption in …
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