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Corruption and Social Interaction: Evidence from China

Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

We explore theoretically and empirically whether social interaction, including local and global interaction, influences the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of corruption is positively associated with social...

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Using the Law to Change the Custom

Aldashev, Gani; Chaara, Imane; Platteau, Jean-Philippe; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We build a simple model of legal dualism in which a pro-poor legal reform, under certain conditions, causes the conflicting custom to go some way toward producing the change intended by the legislator. It then acts as an "outside anchor" that exerts a "magnet effect" on the custom. We illustrate...

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Corruption and Political Interest: Empirical Evidence at the Micro Level

Torgler, Benno; Dong, Bin - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

effects of political interest on corruption despite the interesting potential of this link. We address these deficiencies by …

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Trade and Geography in the Economic Origins of Islam: Theory and Evidence

Michalopoulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

This research examines the economic origins of Islam and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries, virtual countries and ethnic groups, exhibit highly unequal regional agricultural endowments. Second, Muslim adherence is systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade...

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Trust and Fiscal Performance: A Panel Analysis with Swiss Data

Torgler, Benno; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

Citizens are willing to abandon their short-term financial interest in free-riding considerably, if governments act in their interest, if procedures of the public decisions-making process are felt to be fair and if other fellow-citizens have to contribute also an adequate share to the community....

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Making Capitalism Work: Social Capital and Economic Growth in Italy, 1970-1995

Lyon, Thomas P. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

effects. First, social capital, when treated as an input to regional production, has a positive and significant effect in the …

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Institutional Explanations of Economic Development: the Role of Precious Metals

Papyrakis, Elissaios; Gerlagh, Reyer - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

Recent research has emphasized the influence of colonization on the institutional development and economic performance in former European colonies. Where European colonizers settled, they replicated the investment-conducive institutions found at home. It has been argued that a harsh disease...

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Informal Finance: A Theory of Moneylenders

Madestam, Andreas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

constrain formal banks, shallow pockets hamper informal lenders. In such economies, informal finance has two effects. By …

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Corruption and Environmental Policy: An Alternative Perspective

Lapatinas, Athanasios; Litina, Anastasia; Sartzetakis, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

We construct an overlapping generations model in which agents live through two periods; childhood and adulthood. Each agent makes choices only as an adult, based on her utility that depends on her own consumption and the human capital and environmental quality endowed to her offspring. Entering...

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The Carousel Value-added Tax Fraud in the European Emission Trading System

Berrittella, Maria; Cimino, Filippo Alessandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

In this article, we analyse the effects of the carousel value-added tax fraud in the European carbon market and the … model, called GTAP-E and the version 6 of the GTAP database to evaluate the economy-wide and terms of trade effects. The … System will have positive effects in terms of GDP and welfare in the selected EU Member States. …

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