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. The indicators of institutional quality are corruption, bureaucratic quality and the rule of law. We find that reducing … corruption has a positive impact on genuine saving in interaction with resource abundance. That is, the negative effect of … resource abundance on genuine saving is reduced as corruption is reduced. …
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This paper investigates how corruption affects firrm behavior. Firms can engage in two types of corruption when seeking … a public service: cost-reducing "collusive" corruption and cost increasing "coercive" corruption. Using an original and … corruption by adjusting their shipping and sourcing strategies. "Collusive" corruption is associated with higher usage of the …
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tariff evasion on imported goods. This is however partially offset by the displacement of corruption into other firms of … of corruption. I then provide suggestive evidence on how these displacement affects can be economically costly given that … in the design of trade and anti-corruption policies. …
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corruption play a role for the success of such lobbying? In this paper, we propose that a more corruptible government may be more … activity raises the probability of ratification, and the effect rises with the degree of corruption. …
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We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP...
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corruption. This result holds across both the entire sample (of both developed and developing countries), and only for developing …
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for tariff evasion. This was however partially offset by the displacement of corruption into more coercive forms of bribe … design of trade and anti-corruption policies. …
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This paper studies the impact of the competition between lobbies and voters on policy outcomes under alternative legislative procedures. Lobbies and citizens have opposing interests in a public policy and offer money and votes, respectively, to legislators to obtain their preferred policy....
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This paper studies the evolution of the rural non-farm sector in India and its contribution to the decline of poverty … close study over a period of six decades. Sample survey data indicate that the non-farm sector in rural India has grown … in India as both particularly closely linked to rural non-farm development and recording particularly high rates of urban …
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