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The nature of corruption: An interdisciplinary perspective
Dimant, Eugen - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to … impairing everybody's life. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956101
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How Much Do Perceptions of Corruption Really Tell Us?
Weber Abramo, Claudio - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer 2004 survey show … that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among the … general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097472
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Spurious middlemen in corrupt transactions
Bayar, Güzin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
To solve the corruption problem, its root causes should first be diagnosed and factors supporting it should be …, thereby increasing corruption. Even worse, there are 'spurious' intermediaries who obtain bribes from public services by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983165
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The impact of corruption on apprehension level of immigrants: A study of the United States immigration
Buzurukov, Bilol; Lee, Byeong Wan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper demonstrates the effect of country level corruption on illicit behavior of individuals in a foreign country … States from corruption-ridden countries are more likely to be apprehended than individuals from less corrupt countries are. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961611
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Government Activity and Economic Growth – One Size Fits All?
Beckmann, Joscha; Endrich, Marek; Schweickert, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This study investigates the role of government activity in economic growth, arguing that economic systems are important and that, therefore, one size of government does not fit all countries. Taking a panel of 111 countries over the years from 1971 to 2010, we consider clusters of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886882
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How close is your government to its people? Worldwide indicators on localization and decentralization
Ivanyna, Maksym; Shah, Anwar - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
level of human development and lower level of corruption, and thus provides a useful explanation of the Arab Spring and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956049
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Varieties of Capitalism, Governance and Government Spending – A Cross-Section Analysis
Ahrens, Joachim; Schweickert, Rainer; Zenker, Juliane - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
We argue that the literature on government size suffers from neglecting the role of governance both as a driving and a limiting factor for government spending. Cross-country evidence for a sample of 126 developed and developing countries averaging data for the period 2003-07 reveals that better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276632
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Finanzpolitik und Produktionspotential in Deutschland
Boss, Alfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
In recent years, a lot of rules concerning government expenditures as well as tax revenues were changed in Germany. Government expenditures in relation to GDP were reduced, income tax rates were lowered and the budget deficit declined. The structure of government expenditures changed in favor of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818915
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Finanzpolitik und Produktionspotential in Deutschland: 1991-2008
Boss, Alfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
In recent years, a lot of rules concerning government expenditures as well as tax revenues were changed in Germany. Government expenditures in relation to GDP were reduced, income tax rates were lowered and the budget deficit declined. The structure of government expenditures changed in favor of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566190
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Large-Scale Transition of Economic Systems – Do CEECs Converge Towards Western Prototypes?
Ahlborn, Markus; Ahrens, Joachim; Schweickert, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
In order to identify convergence patterns among the group of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) we analyze clusters of traditional OECD countries, i.e. EU-15 plus Norway and Switzerland, Anglo-Saxon non-EU countries plus Japan, and CEECs based on macro data on government regulation...
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