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Tax Rates and Corruption: Labour-market and Fiscal Effects. Empirical cross-country comparisons on OECD and transition countries
Lackó, Mária - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2004
The paper attempts to explain how tax rates, the extent of corruption and various institutional aspects of the labour …
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Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India
Iyer, Lakshmi; Mani, Anandi - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 94 (2012) 3, pp. 723-739
We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns and the consequent implications for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique microlevel data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions. Politicians use frequent...
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Corruption in Developing Countries
Olken, Benjamin; Pande, Rohini - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in economists' ability to measure corruption. This, in turn, has led to a … new generation of well-identified, microeconomic studies. We review the evidence on corruption in developing countries in … light of these recent advances, focusing on three questions: how much corruption is there, what are the efficiency …
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Corruption Dynamics: The Golden Goose Effect
Niehaus, Paul; Sukhtankar, Sandip - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 5 (2013) 4, pp. 230-69
, efficiency wages. Yet taken seriously this approach implies that illicit future rents should also deter corruption. We study this … microrecords to original household survey data to measure corruption. We estimate large golden goose effects that reduced the total …
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Economic and fiscal management under the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) administration
Tanaka, Hideaki - In: OECD Journal on Budgeting 14 (2014) 1, pp. 9-33
Japan experienced a major change of government in September 2009. It was a remarkable political event, because Japanese politics was dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in almost all the years following the end of World War ll. The new coalition government led by the Democratic Party...
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Economic freedom and bureaucracy: Romania versus Bulgaria
Simandan, Radu Ioan - In: Economic Studies journal (2011) 4, pp. 132-145
In this article, we critically analyze some recent attempts to assess the degree of economic freedom that countries around the world enjoy. The devised indices measure the consistency of a nation’s policies and institutions with economic freedom. Although there seems to be a consensus among...
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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability, and Corruption: Evidence from US States
Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 8, pp. 2456-81
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in …
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Public - Private Partnerships – An Instrument Facilitating the Concept “New Public Government” on a Local Level
Velikova, Maria - In: Economic Thought journal (2009) 2, pp. 56-72
The characteristic features of local-level Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) are analyzed and evaluated in this article in line with the priorities of the “new public management”. The focus is on the stages, restrictions, risks, liabilities and challenges facing each of the partners involved.
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Detecting Fraud in Development Aid
Ensminger, Jean Evelyn; Leder-Luis, Jetson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
When organizations have limited accountability, antifraud measures, including auditing, often face barriers due to institutional resistance and practical difficulties on the ground. This is especially true in development aid, where aid organizations face incentives to suppress information about...
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
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