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Gotcha!: a profile of smuggling in international trade

Berger, Helge; Nitsch, Volker - 2008

with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

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Do Higher Government Wages Reduce Corruption? Evidence Based on a Novel Dataset

Le, Van-Ha; de Haan, Jakob; Dietzenbacher, Erik - 2013

policy and corruption. Our dataset, as derived from national household or labor surveys, is more reliable than the data on … government wages as used in previous research. When the relationship between government wages and corruption is modeled to vary … with the level of income, we find that the impact of government wages on corruption is strong at relatively low …

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Public Goods Provision with Rent-Extracting Administrators

Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Grimm, Veronika; … - 2017

This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...

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Corrupt local government as resource farmers : the helping hand and the grabbing hand

Dalgic, Engin; Long, Ngo Van - 2004

We study the role of tax share and transparency of governance on growth and stagnation. A local government maximizes its private benefits using two activities. The first one consists of providing local public goods that help local firms to increase profits, thus enlarging tax revenue. The second...

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The Bounty of the Sea and Long-Run Development

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Knudsen, Anne Sofie B.; Selaya, Pablo - 2015

What is the long run impact on development from differences in subsistence strategies during pre-industrial times? Whereas this question has been explored from the point of view of agriculture, remarkably little attention has been paid to the complementary strategy of relying on marine...

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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Kerr, William R. - 2016

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...

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Terror Per Capita

Jetter, Michael; Stadelmann, David - 2017

Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970 - 2014, we show that three stylized findings are overturned in...

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Foreign Aid in Areas of Limited Statehood

Dreher, Axel; Lang, Valentin F.; Ziaja, Sebastian - 2017

We review the aid effectiveness literature to assess whether foreign aid given to areas of limited statehood can be expected to promote economic and social outcomes in the recipient country. We distinguish different types of aid, motives for granting it, recipient country policies and...

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The KOF Globalisation Index - Revisited

Gygli, Savina; Haelg, Florian; Potrafke, Niklas; Sturm, … - 2018

We introduce the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring globalization for every country in the world along the economic, social and political dimension. The original index was introduced by Dreher (2006) and updated in Dreher et al. (2008). This second...

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The Globalisation-Welfare State Nexus: Evidence from Asia

Potrafke, Niklas - 2018

How globalisation influences social expenditure has been examined for industrialized countries. Globalisation has often been shown to be positively associated with social expenditure in established industrialized countries, a finding that corroborates the compensation hypothesis. Scholars have...

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