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Displacing corruption: evidence from a tariff liberalization program

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

opportunities to extract bribes through a particular method -"selling" tariff evasion, to study how changes in tariff levels affect … the incidence, the distribution, and the level of bribes paid during different stages of the process of importing goods … tariff evasion on imported goods. This is however partially offset by the displacement of corruption into other firms of …

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Tariffs and corruption: evidence from a tariff liberalization program

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

opportunities to extract bribes through a particular method -“selling” tariff evasion-, to study how changes in tariff levels … affected the incidence, the distribution, and the level of bribes paid during different stages of the process of importing … for tariff evasion. This was however partially offset by the displacement of corruption into more coercive forms of bribe …

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Does the underground economy hold back financial deepening? Evidence from the Italian credit market

Gobbi, Giorgio; Zizza, Roberta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

The paper investigates the relationship between underground activities and financial deepening. The access to external finance requires entrepreneurs to disclose credible information through formal documentation. This requirement may be impossible to oblige to for many informal producers who...

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Repression or civil war?

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

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Membership has its priveleges : the effect of social capital and neighbourhood characteristics on the earnings of microfinance borrowers

Gomez, Rafael; Santor, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

This paper examines the determinants of self-employment success for microcredit borrowers. Theories of social capital and neighbourhood effects are integrated in an attempt to account for earnings differentials amongst a unique sample of microfinance borrowers. The paper posits that social...

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The economics of non-governmental organisations

Scott, Colin; Hopkins, R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to identify the organisational comparative advantage of NGOs, and to develop a model which explains the set of circumstances uder which they emerge and dominate other types of firms. It is argued that the potential superiority of NGOs derives from two features: (1)...

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Property rights and economic development

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This chapter develops a unified analytical framework, drawing on and extending the existing literature on the subject, for studying the role of property rights in economic development. It addresses two fundamental and related questions concerning the relationship between property rights and...

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Job creation and job destruction in the presence of informal labour markets

Bosch, Mariano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Recessions and policy interventions in labour markets in developing countries are characterized not only by changes in the unemployment rate, but also by changes in the proportion of formal or protected jobs. This reallocation between formal and informal jobs is large and occurs mainly because...

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Do oil windfalls improve living standards?: evidence from Brazil

Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls on government behavior. Oil-rich municipalities experience increases in revenues and report corresponding increases in spending on public goods and services. However, survey data and...

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Winners and losers from a commodities-for-manufactures trade boom

Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, João Paulo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much concern about the losers from rising import competition in manufacturing, but little attention on the winners from growing Chinese demand for commodities. Using census data for...

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