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Vikings in Greece : Kleptocratic Interest Groups in a Closed, Rent -Seeking Economy
Mitsopoulos, Michael S. - 2011
institutional rigidities that still prevail in Greece's economy, despite the strong growth that it enjoyed until recently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125195
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Vikings in Greece : Kleptocratic Interest Groups in a Closed, Rent-Seeking Economy
Mitsopoulos, Michael S. - 2013
institutional rigidities that still prevail in Greece's economy, despite the strong growth that it enjoyed until recently … and that will improve the quality of governance in Greece also requires a clear understanding of both the factors that … widespread failing of institutions in Greece today. Both of these factors shape the stakes of those who gain from perpetrating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082364
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Testing an EU-candidate's place on the maps of global economic, political and social values : the case of Turkey
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354745
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Governance and developing Asia : concepts, measurements, determinants, and paradoxes
Quibria, Muhammad G. - 2014
Recent years have seen the emergence of a considerable volume of literature on governance and its role in economic and social development of a country. This paper provides a critical review of the literature. This review brings into the open a number of serious conceptual, measurement, and data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336942
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Sticks or carrots? : comparing effectiveness of government shadow economy policies in Russia
Kluge, Janis; Libman, Alexander - 2017
Which incentives have the strongest impact on the size of the shadow economy? Is it about government's pressure against entrepreneurs operating in this sector, or is it about the benefits of legality? The goal of this paper is to explicitly contrast the role of sticks (court repressiveness) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011620553
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Answering critical questions on mining in the Philippines
Clemente, Eligia D.; Domingo, Sonny N.; Manejar, Arvie … - 2018
To attain a perceived acceptable quality of life, the mining industry plays a crucial role as the demand for minerals and energy increases while ore quality decreases. On the other hand, the social and environmental footprints which mining companies leave behind are deemed unacceptable by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993981
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How to fight corruption : carrots and sticks
Knyazev, Dmitriy - In: Economic inquiry 61 (2023) 2, pp. 413-429
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Effects of public sector wages on corruption : wage inequality matters
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Lokshin, Michael; Kolchin, Vladimir - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317156
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The anti-corruption campaign and the inter-generational transmission of working in bureaucracy : evidence from China
Chen, Shuai; Ge, Erqi - 2022
those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission …. First, we conduct a difference-in-differences analysis to compare changes in the probability of working in bureaucracy after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380447
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Nigeria's corruption score card
Stober, Emmanuel Olusegun - In: Management dynamics in the knowledge economy 7 (2019) 2/24, pp. 165-182
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