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Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996-2002
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2003
This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561191
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An Economic Approach to Adultery Law
Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 2000
who initiates punishment, whether punishment is just a transfer or has real costs, who gets the transfer or pays the costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126038
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Police numbers up, crime rates down. The effect of police on crime in the Netherlands, 1996-2003
Vollaard, Ben - EconWPA - 2005
We present evidence on the effect of greater numbers of police personnel on crime and nuisance reduction in the … regions, allowing us to use this policy intervention to identify the effect of police on crime and nuisance. We control for … regional economic, social and demographic factors and for national trends that might obscure the effect of police on crime. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561014
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Stigma and Social Control
Blume, Lawrence E. - EconWPA - 2003
duration will lead to increased crime rates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118585
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The Dynamics of Currency Substitution, Asset Substitution and De facto Dollarization and Euroization in Transition Countrieses
Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003
This paper presents new evidence on the dynamics of dollarization and euroization for twenty-five transition countries. Estimates of the amount of foreign currency in circulation (FCC) in transition countries are used to develop a new comprehensive dollarization index (CDI) and separate indices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076821
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Sons of Something: Taxes, Lawsuits and Local Political Control in Sixteenth Century Castile
Drelichman, Mauricio - EconWPA - 2005
The widespread ennoblement of the Spanish bourgeoisie in the sixteenth century has been traditionally considered one of the main causes of Iberian decline. I document and quantify the surge in ennoblement through a new time series of nobility cases preserved in the Archive of the Royal Chancery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125846
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PREFERENCES,DEVELOPMENT AND THE CORRUPTION TRAP
Correani, Luca - EconWPA - 2004
A perpetual scarcity of public goods/services produces distortions of an individual’s attitudes towards the cost of bureaucratic procedures: even if bureaucracy is not cumbersome, poverty induces people to perceive honesty as too expensive and to prefer illegal payments because they cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125941
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UNDERGROUND ACTIVITY AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: PRODUCTIVE, PROTECTIVE AND PREDATORY BEHAVIOR IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES
Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003
This paper examines why some transitions are more successful than others by focusing attention on the role of productive, protective and predatory behaviors from the perspective of the new institutional economics. Many transition economies are characterized by a fundamental inconsistency between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062456
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The Inequality of Influence
Hellman, Joel; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003
This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the resulting inequality as crony bias in the political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407672
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Far From Home: Do Foreign Investors Import Higher Standards of Governance in Transition Economies?
Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003
Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in transition countries, which unbundles corruption to measure different types of corrupt transactions and provide detailed information on the characteristics and performance of firms, we find that: i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407674