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Electoral Cycles in Perceived Corruption : International Empirical Evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International’s Perception of Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections …
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Corruption and Economic Growth : New Empirical Evidence
Gründler, Klaus - 2019
The nexus between corruption and economic growth has been examined for a long time. Many empirical studies measured … corruption by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of Corruption Index (CPI) and ignored that the CPI was not … 2012-2018 and re-examine the nexus between corruption and economic growth. The cumulative long-run effect of corruption on …
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Scarring or scaring?: the psychological impact of past unemployment and future unemployment risk
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2008
We reassess the scarring" hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past reduces a person's current life satisfaction even after the person has become reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar from past unemployment operates via worsened...
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Dissatisfied with life, but having a good day: time-use and well-being of the unemployed
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Schöb, Ronnie; … - 2009
We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day, and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are...
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Right-wing extremism and the well-being of immigrants
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009
This study analyzes the effects of right-wing extremism on the well-being of immigrants based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2006 merged with state-level information on election outcomes. The results show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is...
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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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Election Systems, the "Beauty Premium" in Politics, and the Beauty of Dissent
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösch, Marcus; Ursprung, Heinrich - 2020
We ask three questions. First, do election systems differ in how they translate physical attractiveness of candidates into electoral success? Second, do political parties strategically exploit the “beauty premium” when deciding on which candidates to nominate, and, third, do elected MPs use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227636
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Election Systems, the "Beauty Premium" in Politics, and the Beauty of Dissent
Potrafke, Niklas - 2020
We ask three questions. First, do election systems differ in how they translate physical attractiveness of candidates into electoral success? Second, do political parties strategically exploit the "beauty premium" when deciding on which candidates to nominate, and, third, do elected MPs use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833726
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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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