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This paper provides empirical evidence that campaign contributions arestrongly associated with market expectations of future firm-specific political favors,including preferential access to external financing. Using a novel dataset, we find thatfirms in Brazil providing contributions in the 1998...
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A government officials' propensity to corruption, or corruptibility, can be affected by his intertemporal preference …
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' for four distinctly different African countries (Morocco, Egypt, Senegal and Ghana). In general, great expectations about … potential migrants are only present in Ghana and Egypt. The differences in intentions by age and sex are also quite noteworthy … Ghana and Egypt. The network effects of potential migrants turn out to be less important than one might expect from actual …
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? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad …
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Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it …
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Goods are often allocated publically by means of queuing processes in developing countries.In such situations, which group of citizens should a corrupt government official favor? In addition,what should be the basis for this favoritism? To the best of our knowledge, these salient questionshave...
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