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Corruption and Access to Socio-Economic Services in Africa

Freytag, Andreas; Riaz, Muhammad Faraz - 2021

Corruption is one of the world’s most widespread political problems. It can be found on international, national and sub … a micro level measure of corruption based on the personal experiences of individuals, which realistically represents the … African countries that contains information of more than 50,000 citizens. Corruption is found being negatively correlated with …

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Is Hard Brexit Detrimental to EU Integration? Theory and Evidence

Mikolajun, Irena - 2018

In the struggle between the forces of free trade and the restrictive influence of insularism the latter recently seems to have the upper hand. This is illustrated by the referendum of June 23, 2016 where the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU). In this paper we evaluate...

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Quantifying Brexit : From Ex Post to Ex Ante Using Structural Gravity

Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata - 2020

Exploiting changes in the geography of economic integration in Europe, this paper uses detailed Exploiting changes in the geography of economic integration in Europe, we quantify the economic consequences of Brexit using a quantitative general equilibrium model that captures inter- and...

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The Brexit Conundrum Worsens the UK's Relationship with the European Union

Ryan, John T - 2019

This paper examines the shortcomings in the UK government's Brexit negotiation strategy which reflected Prime Minister Theresa May's weak political leadership. The Prime Minister focused on securing the short-term political survival of her government amidst turbulent and fractious domestic...

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On Optimal Currency Areas and Common Cycles : Are the Acceding Countries Ready to Join the Euro?

Grimm, Louisa; Steinkamp, Sven; Westermann, Frank - 2021

The former EU president Jean-Claude Junker has proposed that all countries of the European Union should also adopt the euro as their currency and recent research has shown that countries currently pursuing this goal indeed fulfill the classical Optimal Currency Area (OCA) criterion of positively...

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The Trade and FDI Effects of EMU Enlargement

Brouwer, J.; Paap, Richard; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2021

This paper considers the nature and the distribution of trade and FDI effects of a potential enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) to the ten countries that obtained EU membership in 2004. One-way and two-way error component gravity models are estimated using a dataset of unbalanced...

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Expecting Brexit

Dhingra, Swati; Sampson, Thomas - 2022

The Brexit vote precipitated the unravelling of the UK’s membership of the world’s deepest economic integration agreement. This paper reviews evidence on the realized economic effects of Brexit. The 2016 Brexit referendum changed expectations about future UK-EU relations. Studying its...

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Pricing Group Membership

Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha - 2020

We consider a model where agents differ in their ‘types' which determines their voluntary contribution towards a public good. We analyze what the equilibrium composition of groups are under centralized and centralized choice. We show that there exists a top-down sorting equilibrium i.e. an...

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Corruption, seigniorage and growth: theory and evidence

Blackburn, Keith; Neanidis, Kyriakos C.; Haque, M. Emranul - 2008

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …

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Taxation, corruption and the exchange rate regime

Hefeker, Carsten - 2009

The paper analyzes the relation between institutional quality, such as corruption, in a country and its monetary regime …. It is shown that a credibly fixed exchange rate to a low inflation country, like a currency board, can reduce corruption … countries with regard to the level of corruption. …

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