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politician corruption that we conducted in North India is remarkably consistent with our theoretical predictions. …
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Using the regression discontinuity design of close gubernatorial elections in the U.S., we identify a significant and positive impact of the social networks of corporate directors and politicians on firm value. Firms connected to elected governors increase their value by 3.89%. Political...
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This paper investigates the effect of corruption on competition in government procurement auctions. Our assumption is … corruption is to facilitate collusion in price between firms. This can result in high public spending and inefficient allocation … which unilateral anti-corruption controls may restore price competition. …
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fraud, or corruption - that share with cartels the crucial features that well designed leniency and whistleblower programs …
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We try to demonstrate how economists may engage in research on comparative politics, relating the size and composition of government spending to the political system. A Downsian model of electoral competition and forward-looking voting indicates that majoritarian---as opposed to...
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We consider a neoclassical growth model with endogenous corruption. Corruption and wealth, which are co-determined in … corruption, and if indeed as suggested by a number of empirical studies corruption hampers growth, then how did rich countries … relatively closed economies of the 19th century, the gains from corruption remained inside the country and became part of the …
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when designing anti-corruption policy. …
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This Paper provides a new approach to the evaluation of pre-shipment inspection (PSI) programs as ways of improving tariff-revenue collection and reducing fraud when customs administrations are corrupt. We build a model highlighting the contribution of surveillance firms to the generation of...
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Tax evasion, by its very nature, is difficult to observe. In this Paper, we present a case study of tax evasion in China. The novel feature of our approach is that at a very disaggregated level of individual products, we can measure evasion relatively precisely, by comparing the values that...
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bribe, which reduces corruption. Appropriate networks are more easily established in small towns, by long-term residents of … battle against corruption faced by policy-makers in rapidly urbanizing countries with high fertility. I show that victims of …
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