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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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Harassment, corruption and economic policy

Marjit, Sugata; Mukherjee, Vivekananda; Mukherjee, Arijit - 1999

This paper introduces harassment in a model of bribery and corruption. We characterize the harassment equilibrium and …

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Eat widely, vote wisely : lessons from a campaign against vote buying in Uganda

Blattman, Christopher; Larreguy, Horacio; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2024

We study a large-scale intervention designed by civil society organizations to reduce vote buying in Uganda’s 2016 elections. We study this intervention in light of a model where incumbents benefit from a first-mover and valence advantage, vote buying and campaigning are complementary, and...

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Fear of model misspecification and the robustness premium

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Malley, James R. - 2010

Robust decision making implies welfare costs or robustness premia when the approximating model is the true data generating process. To examine the importance of these premia at the aggregate level we employ a simple two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model with human capital and introduce an...

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Economic policy uncertainty, trust and inflation expectations

Istrefi, Klodiana; Piloiu-Popescu, Anamaria-Valeria - 2013 - Second Draft: February 2013

Theory and evidence suggest that in an environment of well-anchored expectations, temporary news or shocks to economic variables, should not affect agents ́expectations of inflation in the long term. Our estimated structural VARs show that both long- and short-term inflation expectations are...

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Does economic policy uncertainty encourage gambling? : evidence from the Chinese welfare lottery market

Xu, Can; Steiner, Andreas; Haan, Jakob de - 2023

This paper investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on gambling activity in China. Based on a theoretical model, we hypothesize that EPU increases the demand for hope which raises the willingness to pay for lottery tickets, resulting in higher lottery sales. We estimate a...

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The impact of tax morale and institutional quality on the shadow economy

Torgler, Benno (contributor); … - 2007

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Shadow economy, tax morale, governance and institutional quality : a panel analysis

Torgler, Benno (contributor); … - 2007

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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads

Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019

Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …

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Political regime change, economic reform and growth accelerations

Jong-A-Pin, Richard (contributor); … - 2007

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