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cost of corruption, in the context of public transport. We first document that police stops can lead to long bribe …
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We analyze the organization of corruption in a state agency. The dual mandate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo … profits and distortions beyond those that would be made possible via corruption by individual state officials …
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Formal rules within organizations are pervasive, but may be interpreted and implemented differently by actors within the organization, impacting organizational outcomes. We consider a delegation reform that changed formal rules within the environmental regulator in an Indian state, by giving...
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paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and …
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We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in …
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Does combating corruption reduce clientelism? We examine the impact of a prominent anti-corruption program on …
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Absence of well-functioning formal institutions leads to reliance on social networks to enforce informal contracts. Social ties may aid cooperation, but agents vary in network centrality, and this hierarchy may hinder cooperation. To assess the extent to which networks substitute for...
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the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. While the secular trend for India's manufacturing …
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We analyze the history of Japanese foreign exchange interventions from 1971 to 2018. First, we provide the best proxy for monthly interventions for the period from 1971 to 1990, when the intervention timings and amounts were not officially disclosed. The accuracy of the proxy is tested for the...
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? The core design challenge is managing the tradeoff between Type-II errors of inclusion (including corruption) against Type … the delivery of India's largest social protection program (subsidized food) in the state of Jharkhand. By itself … corruption in welfare programs can also generate non-trivial costs in terms of exclusion and inconvenience to genuine …
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