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The Impact of Government Size on Corruption: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Bonanno, Graziella; Errico, Lucia; Fiorino, Nadia; … - 2024

We perform a Meta-Regression Analysis (MRA) of the literature on government size and corruption, examining 450 …-sectional data. Moreover, the type of indicator used to measure corruption has a significant impact on the sign of the relationship … significant results, whereas we find a positive relationship between the countries' corruption index and the effect size. …

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Can Moral Reminders Curb Corruption? Evidence from an Online Classroom Experiment

Claus, Corinna; Koehler, Ekkehard A.; Krieger, Tim - 2022

deontological moral reminder (“corruption is immoral”) leads to a significant reduction in accepting bribes. A consequentialist …

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Does terrorism reduce life satisfaction?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 13/15, pp. 893-896

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Oil Wealth and Property Rights

de Soysa, Indra; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2020

We empirically examine the impact of oil wealth on property rights protection for a sample of 156 countries between 1960 and 2014. We find that higher levels of oil wealth result in weaker private property rights. This result is robust to different instrumental-variable approaches and...

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Oil Wealth and Property Rights

Soysa, Indra - 2020

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Incomplete property rights and overinvestment

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2009

I consider a model in which an asset owner must decide how much to invest in his asset mindful of the fact that an encroacher's valuation of the asset is increasing in the asset owner's investment. Due to incomplete property rights, the encroacher and asset owner engage in a contest over the...

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The Historical Roots of Corruption and Economic Development in Italy

Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2013

social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We … test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces, and address the possible endogeneity of corruption by applying an … IV model. We use three sets of historical instruments for corruption: 1) foreign dominations in 16th-17th century, 2 …

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Can Moral Reminders Curb Corruption? Evidence from an Online Classroom Experiment

Claus, Corinna; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Krieger, Tim - 2022

deontological moral reminder (“corruption is immoral”) leads to a significant reduction in accepting bribes. A consequentialist …

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A Crook is a Crook ... But is He Still a Crook Abroad? On the Effect of Immigration on Destination-Country Corruption

Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Redlin, Margarete - 2014

This paper analyzes the impact of migration on destination-country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive … explore different channels through which corruption might migrate. We employ different estimation methods using Fixed Effects … find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the destination country's corruption level, immigration …

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Socially-tolerable discrimination

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2008

History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status, academic performance, health status, volume of market transactions, religion, sexual orientation, etc. However, these forms of discrimination are not equally tolerable. For...

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