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Do Attitudes Towards Corruption Differ Across Cultures? Experimental Evidence from Australia, India, Indonesia andSingapore

Cameron, L.; Chaudhuri, A.; Erkal, N.; Gangadharan, L. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2005

This paper examines cultural differences in attitudes towards corruption by analysing individual-decision making in a … corrupt experimental environment. Attitudes towards corruption play a critical role in the persistence of corruption. Our … allow us to explore whether, in environments characterized by lower levels of corruption, there is both a lower propensity …

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Subject Pool Effects in a Corruption Experiment: A Comparison of Indonesian Public Servants and Indonesian Students

Alatas, Vivi; Cameron, Lisa; Chaudhuri, Ananish; Erkal, … - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2006

We report results from a corruption experiment with Indonesian public servants and Indonesian students. Our results … suggest that although both subject pools show a high level of concern with the extent of corruption in Indonesia, the … Indonesian public servant subjects have a significantly lower tolerance of corruption than the Indonesian students. We find no …

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Rent Seeking and Judicial Bias in Weak Legal Systems

Bardsley, Peter; Nguyen, Quan - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2005

We model rent seeking in litigation in weak legal systems as a Tulloch contest in which litigators may seek to influence the court directly through bribery as well as through the merit of the legal case that they bring. If the local firm has a competitive advantage in influencing the court then...

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The Built-In Flexibility of Taxation: Some Basic Analytics

Creedy, J.; Gemmell, N. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1998

This paper provides a unified framework in which to examine income and consumption tax revenue elasticities. In addition, new results are established in relation to consumption taxes. These results help to provide a better understanding of the determinants of the revenue responsiveness...

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Differential Consumption Taxes and Equity: The Limits to Redistribution.

Creedy, J. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1998

The present paper considers the question of just how redistributive it is possible to make consumption taxes, by using differential rates and exemptions.

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The GST and Vertical, Horizontal and Reranking Effects of Indirect Taxation in Australia.

Creedy, J. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2001

This paper decomposes the redistributive effect of indirect taxation into vertical, horizontal inequity and reranking …

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Means-Tested Versus Universal Transfers.

Creedy, J. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1995

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Non-Uniform Indirect Taxation, Horizontal in Equity and Re-Ranking.

Creedy, J. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1998

This paper has examined the decomposition of the redistributive effect of indirect taxation into vertical , horizontal …

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The Welfare Effects of Indirect Taxes in Australia: Some Alternative Reforms

Creedy, J. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1998

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the welfare effects of several indirect tax reforms in Australia. The welfare changes are measured in terms of equivalent variations and equivalent incomes, using estimates of the linear expenditure system for each of a range of income groups. The...

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Close Equals and Calculation of the Vertical, Horizontal and Reranking Effects of Taxation.

Creedy, J.; Lambert, P.J.; van de Ven, J. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2001

This paper examines the Gini-based method of decomposing the redistributive effect of taxation into vertical …

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