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politician corruption that we conducted in North India is remarkably consistent with our theoretical predictions. …
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rates. Further, the S&P 500 market seems to be well integrated, and the NASDAQ is generally (but not always) integrated. The …
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assets traded on a given market share the same EMRS. The technique is also powerful enough to reject integration between the …
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During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of …
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The economics literature provides ample evidence that higher corruption discourages FDI inflows. In this paper we … inflows on corruption. We present a simple model that illustrates the two-way relationship between foreign direct investment … and corruption, identifying exactly the direction of causality that we address: how do “exogenous“ variations in FDI …
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and decreasing in officials' corruption. In contrast to the "tollbooth view" of regulation, the standard chosen by a self …-interested government is a non-monotonic function of officials' corruption, and can be either lower or higher than that chosen by a …-capita income, and negatively with corruption, consistently with the model's predictions for benevolent governments …
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are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of …
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by inefficiencies and corruption. We examine this hypothesis by exploiting an unusual policy experiment: A newspaper …
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This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...
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This chapter examines the relationship between corporate governance and competition, particularly with regard to cartel formation, and discusses how corporate governance and firm agency problems affect optimal law enforcement against cartels, both in terms of sanctions and leniency policies....
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