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"Tiger-hunting" and life satisfaction : a matter of trust
Zhang, Youxing; Howley, Peter; Hetschko, Clemens - 2022
political support. Combining data on the public disclosure of anti-corruption efforts and individual well-being in China, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013440309
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Size, determinants, and consequences of corruption in China's provinces : the MIMIC approach
Chen, Hailin; Schneider, Friedrich; Sun, Qunli - 2018 - 20 July 2018, 6th Version
This paper uses a multiple indicators and multiple causes (MIMIC) model and estimates the extent of corruption in 30 … Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2015. Treating corruption as an unobserved latent variable, the MIMIC results show that both … government size and public investment have significant positive effects on corruption, while fiscal decentralization, citizen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011884334
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Petty corruption and citizen feedback
Angelucci, Charles; Russo, Antonio - 2015
Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343756
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A dynamic theory of regulatory capture
De Chiara, Alessandro; Schwarz, Marco - 2021
Firms often try to influence individuals that, like regulators, are tasked with advising or deciding on behalf of a third party. In a dynamic regulatory setting, we show that a firm may prefer to capture regulators through the promise of a lucrative future job opportunity (i.e., the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491609
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Corruption in Russia : historic legacy and systemic nature
Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2018
This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty … towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789215
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Are public sector workers different? : cross-European evidence from elderly workers and retirees
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015
We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010471914
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What are the priorities of bureaucrats? : evidence from conjoint experiments with procurement officials
Tukiainen, Janne; Blesse, Sebastian; Bohne, Albrecht; … - 2023 - This version: December 6, 2022
While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit preferences of 900+ real-world public procurement officials in Finland and Germany. This is an important pursuit as they report having sizeable discretion and minimal extrinsic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013482661
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Exposition to corruption and political participation : evidence from Italian municipalities
Giommoni, Tommaso - 2017
The aim of this paper is to study the effect of local corruption on political participation which is mediated by the … press. Focusing on Italy, we generate a daily measure of exposition to local corruption screening articles of main Italian … press agency. Applying an event-study methodology on local elections, two results emerge. First, corruption exposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721582
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Resource rents, democracy and corruption : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Arezki, Rabah; Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2011
We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is … suggest that the mechanisms through which resource rents affect corruption cannot be separated from political systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301201
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Compliance costs, corruption and the differentiation of bureaucratic services
Seidel, André - 2015 - This version: 12.17.2015
How to fight petty day-to-day corruption is a question often debated by politicians, by the public and in the economic … literature. Early studies have noted that a simple and well-known way to fight day-to-day corruption is to create competition … in a way that eliminates corruption. This is due to a tradeoff between corruption and compliance costs. More …
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