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This paper presents a new methodology to detect corruption in customs and applies it to Madagascar’s main port. Manipulation of assignment of import declarations to inspectors is identified by measuring deviations from random assignment prescribed by official rules. Deviant declarations are...
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Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate feedback in public officials' incentives. The main novelty of our proposal is to allow citizens to directly influence officials' pay. We consider a situation in which entrepreneurs...
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Can machine learning support better governance? In the context of Brazilian municipalities, 2001-2012, we have access to detailed accounts of local budgets and audit data on the associated fiscal corruption. Using the budget variables as predictors, we train a tree-based gradient-boosted...
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Whether a firm is able to attract foreign capital and whether it may participate at the export market depends on whether the fixed costs associated with doing so are at least covered by the incremental operating profits. This paper provides evidence that success for some firms in attracting...
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In this paper, we study the role of Confucius Institute in supporting internationalization of Chinese enterprises. Employing a panel dataset containing 66 Belt-Road countries and 75 non Belt-Road countries from 2006 to 2017, we find that the Confucius Institute has had a positive effect on...
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firms in China over 2004-2007, we find that foreign affiliates from countries with a more gender-equal culture tend to … raises China's aggregate total factor productivity by 5%, of which spillovers from multinationals account for 19%. …
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Made in China 2025 influence investment patterns of Chinese state-owned acquirers but not those of private investors …
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potential concerns on China's state-backed OFDI and its implication on long-term sustainability. -- outward foreign direct …
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motivations are relevant for both manufacturing and services. -- China ; foreign direct investment ; internationalization ; trade …
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quantification of the gains from optimal ownership within multinational firms, by exploiting a major liberalization of China's policy …
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