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Why Are Some Public Officials More Corrupt Than Others?
Hunt, Jennifer - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005
institutions. The characteristics of officials’ clients explain most of the variation for bribery rates, but none for bribe amounts … rates and amounts. The results indicate that the bribery rate is higher at institutions with bribe-prone clients, and that … reduce corruption. Overall, the judiciary and the police are by far the most corrupt institutions. …
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The Politics of Institutional Renovation and Economic Upgrading: Lessons from the Argentine Wine Industry
Dermott, Gerald Mc - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005
different political approaches to reform shape the ability of societies to build new institutions for economic upgrading. The …-private institutions via adherence to two key principles: a) inclusion of a wide variety of relevant stakeholder groups and b) rules of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677722
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Bribery: Who Pays, Who Refuses, What Are The Payoffs?
Hunt, Jennifer; Laszlo, Sonia - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005
We provide a theoretical framework for understanding when an official angles for a bribe, when a client pays, and the payoffs to the client’s decision. We test this frame work using a new data set on bribery of Peruvian public officials by households. The theory predicts that bribery is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784704
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THE DEVELOPMENT EFFECTS OF NATURAL RESOURCES: A GEOGRAPHICAL DIMENSION
Carmignani, Fabrizio; Chowdhury, Abdur - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2011
Despite the recent growth resurgence, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains the poorest region in the world. At the same time, it is a region that heavily relies on natural resources. In this paper we investigate the extent to which the second fact helps explain the first one. The distinctive feature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010545922
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International Coercion, Emulation and Policy Diffusion: Market-Oriented Infrastructure Reforms, 1977-1999
Henisz, Witold J.; Zelner, Bennet A.; Guillen, Mauro F. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
Why do some countries adopt market-oriented reforms such as deregulation, privatization and liberalization of competition in their infrastructure industries while others do not? Why did the pace of adoption accelerate in the 1990s? Building on neo-institutional theory in sociology, we argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784793
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Is women's ownership of land a panacea in developing countries? Evidence from land-owning farm households in Malawi
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2013
Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions …. The policy implication is that facilitating female ownership of assets through informal and formal institutions does not …
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Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition and development, there has been little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677668
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How Much Restructuring did the Transition Countries Experience? Evidence from Quality of their Exports
Kandogan, Yener - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
The increase in exports to market economies is a good sign, but it is not conclusive about the extent of restructuring of production technologies experienced in transition countries. This paper explores the source of the increase with an analysis of their exports’ quality, interprets the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677718
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Media Coverage & Charitable Giving After the 2004 Tsunami
Brown, Philip; Minty, Jessica - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006
Media coverage of humanitarian crises is widely believed to influence charitable giving, yet this assertion has received little empirical scrutiny. Using Internet donations after the 2004 tsunami as a case study, we show that media coverage of disasters has a dramatic impact on donations to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652578
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Culture Rules: The Foundations of the Rule of Law and Other Norms of Governance
Licht, Amir N.; Goldschmidt, Chanan; Schwartz, Shalom H. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003
This study presents evidence about relations between national culture and social institutions. We operationalize … suggest a framework for understanding the relations between fundamental institutions of social order as well as policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652615