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Turning virtual public spaces into laboratories: thoughts on conducting online field studies using social network sites

Gleibs, Ilka Helene - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This article deals with the topic of ethics in large-scale online studies on social network sides. ‘Big data’ and large …

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Research governance and ethics for adult social care research: procedures, practices and challenges

Woolham, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The introduction of the Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care by the Department of Health in 2001 extended the reach of research governance from the NHS, where reviewing arrangements were already well established, into universities and local authorities, who were requested in...

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What are financial journalists for?

Tambini, Damian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

In order to understand why so little media attention was paid to risks in the banking sector in the run up to the financial crisis, we need to understand the framework of law, regulation, self-regulation and professional incentives that structure the practice of financial and business...

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Deep uncertainty in long-term hurricane risk: scenario generation and implications for future climate experiments

Ranger, Nicola; Niehörster, Falk - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Current projections of long-term trends in Atlantic hurricane activity due to climate change are deeply uncertain, both in magnitude and sign. This creates challenges for adaptation planning in exposed coastal communities. We present a framework to support the interpretation of current long-term...

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Government corruption and legislative procedures: is one chamber better than two?

Testa, Cecilia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

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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Corruption, the resource curse and genuine saving

Dietz, Simon; Neumayer, Eric; de Soysa, Indra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

. 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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Corruption and firm behavior

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

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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Displacing corruption: evidence from a tariff liberalization program

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

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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Kyoto protocol cooperation: does government corruption facilitate environmental lobbying?

Fredriksson, Per G.; Neumayer, Eric; Ujhelyi, Gergely - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

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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Do oil windfalls improve living standards?: evidence from Brazil

Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

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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