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How Institutions Shape Land Deals : The Role of Corruption

Bujko, Matthias - 2015

Large-scale land acquisitions often take place in developing countries which are also known for their corruption …-friendliness caused by weak institutional frameworks. We hypothesize that corruption indeed leads to more land deals. We argue that … corrupt elites exploit poor institutional setups (characterized by corruption) to strike deals with domestic and international …

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The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - 2021

Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …

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Public Goods Provision with Rent-Extracting Administrators

Cagala, Tobias - 2018

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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Plunging into the Sea : Ideological Change, Institutional Environments and Private Entrepreneurship in China

Yang, Jin - 2018

This paper examines the integration of Chinese Communist Party membership and private entrepreneurship in China after 2002, when the Party revised its constitution and officially removed ideological discrimination against private entrepreneurs. Using six waves of a nationwide survey of privately...

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Institutional Architecture for Financing Pan-Asian Infrastructure Connectivity

Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2017

Asia, particularly its major economies has witnessed slower growth in recent years. To make Asia more economically sustainable and resilient against external shocks to recover from the falling growth, most regional economies need to rebalance their export-oriented (mostly to advanced economies)...

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Explaining Inequality between Countries : The Declining Role of Political Institutions

Hussey, Andrew - 2017

Within the fundamental determinants of cross-country income inequality, ‘humanly devised' political institutions represent a hallmark factor that societies can influence, as opposed to, for example, geography. Focusing on the portion of inequality explainable by differences in political...

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Budget Institutions and Government Effectiveness

Dahan, Momi - 2017

Do budget institutions play a role in explaining why government effectiveness is higher in some advanced countries than in others? Employing an original panel dataset that spans four different years (1991, 2003, 2007 and 2012) we find that budget centralization has a negative and significant...

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Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences, and Beliefs

Engl, Florian - 2018

Institutions are an important means for fostering prosocial behaviors, but in many contexts their scope is limited and they govern only a subset of all socially desirable acts. We study experimentally how the presence and nature of an institution that enforces prosocial behavior in one domain...

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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment- An International Comparison

Flaig, Gebhard - 2011

This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the period 1960 to 2003 In contrast to many other studies, we use long time series and analyze cyclically adjusted trend values of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is...

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Community Enterprises - An Institutional Innovation

Frey, Bruno S. - 2011

Management research has long focused on the theory of the firm, studying for-profit organizations that produce privately owned resources based on central authority and within well-defined boundaries. In recent times, a new kind of enterprise has emerged that we call Community Enterprises. They...

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