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One size fits all? : decentralization, corruption, and the monitoring of bureaucrats

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2009

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the …

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The impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption : conditionality matters

Kalenborn, Christine; Lessmann, Christian - 2012

This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical … literature, we argue that both institutional features are complements rather than substitutes in controlling corruption. Our … 175 countries from 1996 to 2010. The results show that democratic elections only work in controlling corruption, if there …

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Out-of-sample exchange rate predictability with Taylor rule fundamentals

Molodtsova, Tanya; Papell, David H. - In: Journal of international economics 77 (2009) 2, pp. 167-180

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International taxation and multinational firm location decisions

Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Huizinga, Harry; Laeven, Luc; … - 2008

Using a large international firm-level data set, we estimate separate effects of host and parent country taxation on the location decisions of multinational firms. Both types of taxation are estimated to have a negative impact on the location of new foreign subsidiaries. In fact, the impact of...

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Do free trade agreements actually increase members' international trade?

Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H. - In: Journal of international economics 71 (2007) 1, pp. 72-95

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Decentralization and the shadow economy : Oates meets Allingham-Sandmo

Bühn, Andreas; Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2011

This paper studies the impact of decentralization on the shadow economy. We argue that decentralization may decrease … the size of the shadow economy mainly through two transmission channels: (1) Decentralization enhancing public sector … robust evidence of the efficiency effect. -- decentralization ; shadow economy …

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Regional inequality, convergence, and its determinants : a view from outer space

Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - 2015 - This version: 16.04.2015

This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where regional income data are available. We subsequently use...

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Heterogeneous economic integration agreement effects

Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Clance, Matthew W. - 2015

Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous - "trade-cost elasticity" plays a central role in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and...

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Introduction to special issue on the global financial crisis

Forbes, Kristin; Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Engel, Charles - In: Journal of international economics 88 (2012) 2, pp. 215-218

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Special issue: the global financial crisis

Forbes, Kristin (contributor); Frankel, Jeffrey (contributor) - 2012

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