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This is a note on corruption and underground economy in a Kaldor-type model of the business cycle. It appears that when …
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prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …
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dysfunction as a result of action of institutional factors, in particular, corruption as an informal negative institute. The … the level of perceptible corruption. This suggests that democracy facilitates dispersion of responsibility and alienation …
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This paper replicates the Johnson et al.’s (1998) empirical analysis of the affects of regulatory discretion on the unofficial economy. The narrow replication uses the data set of the original study which comprises of 49 countries for the year 1997. The wide replication is performed in two...
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in Djibouti by both the macroeconomic and microeconomic analysis. The review shows that institutional habits (corruption …
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This note develops a model of two stage game between a corrupt trade union leader and the management of the firm where the former negotiates for the wage of the workers with the firm. The firm bribes the leader so that he keeps the wage as close as possible to the workers’ reservation wage....
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If corrupt bureaucrats target registered firms, then corruption may discourage registration. Using data from a survey … of 4,801 microenterprises in Zambia, this paper looks at whether corruption is a more or less serious problem for … about corruption than unregistered firms. This suggests that remaining informal and out-of-sight might reduce the burden of …
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This paper develops a model of determination of unionized wage in the presence of both collective bargaining and efficiency wage. The efficiency of each worker is positively related to both the wage and the unemployment rate in the economy. The unionized wage is greater than the efficiency wage....
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corruption in the distribution of formal credit. The existing moneylender, the bank official and the new moneylenders move …
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The paper presents a theoretical model with bureaucratic corruption where bribe income can leak out of an economy. In … for entrepreneurship by maximizing the welfare of the economy. We show that the corruption persists at the equilibrium … in low prosperity economies the control of leakage may induce higher level of corruption, while the opposite is true in …
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