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Displacing corruption: evidence from a tariff liberalization program

Sequeira, Sandra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

. The reduction in tariff rates was associated with a significant decline (60%) in bribe payments to customs officials for … tariff evasion on imported goods. This is however partially offset by the displacement of corruption into other firms of … bribe extraction that led to a 70% increase in average bribes per transaction and a shift from collusive to coercive firms …

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Tariffs and corruption: evidence from a tariff liberalization program

Sequeira, Sandra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

for tariff evasion. This was however partially offset by the displacement of corruption into more coercive forms of bribe … goods. The reduction in tariff rates was associated with a significant decline (60%) in bribe payments to customs officials … to changes in bribe patterns by adjusting their decisions to source inputs domestically or internationally. While all …

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State capacity, conflict and development

Besley, Timothy; Persson, Torsten - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

We report on an on-going project, which asks a number of questions relevant to the study of state capacity. What are the main economic and political determinants of the state’s capacity to raise revenue and support private markets? How do risks of violent conflict affect the incentives to...

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Analyzing the case for government intervention in a representative democracy

Besley, Timothy; Coate, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

The welfare economic method for analyzing the case for government intervention is often critized for ignoring the political determination of policies. The standard method of accounting for this critique studies the case for intervention under the constraint that the level of the instrument in...

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Read my lips : the political economy of information transmission

Besley, Timothy; Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

The paper studies credible information transmission by governments. A group of heterogenous individuals have to make private investment and labour supply decisions while relying on the government for information about investment returns. The government consists of an elected citizen who chooses...

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When does inter-jurisdictional competition engender a "race to the bottom"?: a meta-regression analysis

Costa-i-Font, Joan; De-Albuquerque, Filipe; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

A growing literature documents the existence of strategic political reactions to public expenditure in one jurisdiction on either neighboring or reference jurisdictions. The latter might give raise to downward expenditure spiral, or “race to the bottom”. However, in ascertaining the...

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Cross-country determinants of life satisfaction: exploring different determinants across groups in society

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper explores a wide range of cross-country determinants of life satisfaction exploiting a database of 90,000 observations in 70 countries. We distinguish four groups of aggregate variables as potential determinants of satisfaction: political, economic, institutional, and human development...

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To join or not to join? Factors influencing employee share plan membership in a multinational corporation

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Many firms encourage employees to own company stock through share plans that subsidizethe price at favorable rates, but even so many employees do not buy shares. Using a newsurvey of employees in a multinational with a share ownership plan, we find considerablevariation in joining among...

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Does envy destroy social fundamentals? The impact of relative income position on social capital

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Torgler, Benno - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individual attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking. Therefore, this paper assesses such positional impact on social capital by applying 14 different measurements to International Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries. We...

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Crime and immigration: evidence from large immigrant waves

Bell, Brian; Machin, Stephen; Fasani, Francesco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause crime is borne out by rigorous evidence. We consider possible crime effects from two large waves...

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