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Legal corruption, politically connected corporate governance and firm performance

Domadenik, Polona; Prašnikar, Janez; Švejnar, Jan - 2014

In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market … institutions that do not punish political corruption result in political connectedness of firms that in turn has a negative effect …

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Measuring performance: ranking state success over two decades in India

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Chaudhuri, Arka Roy; … - 2021

This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery of public programs in developing countries with a federal structure. We rank the performance of 19 major Indian states on two large development programs launched by the Indian...

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Women legislators and economic performance

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018

India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …

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Can crises affect citizen activism? : evidence from a pandemic

Afridi, Farzana; Basistha, Ahana; Dhillon, Amrita; … - 2024

We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether … March and July 2021, we elicit willingness to act against fraud and corruption in the provision of health services by … the COVID-19 peak in their state of residence, we find evidence of a large and significant increase in anti-corruption …

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Dishonesty under scrutiny

Ven, Jeroen van de; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014

We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying behavior is not sensitive to revealing the sender's identity to the observer. The option for...

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Informal sector and corruption : an empirical investigation for India

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2011

sector ; corruption ; state domestic product ; governance ; India …India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of … corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic …

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Does economic freedom moderate perceived corruption for firms in India?

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Stivers, Adam - 2023

relationship between economic freedom and corruption in India is layered, with firm characteristics playing a crucial role. …Available wisdom suggests that a negative relationship prevails between economic freedom and perceived corruption among … that greater competition may accentuate the problem of corruption. This is contrary to the general observation that …

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Ownership or performance : what determines board of directors' turnover in Italy?

Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno - 2000

This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, and whether and how...

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Voice at work

Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job...

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The gender pay gap in the CEOs' labor market

Tani, Massimiliano; Valentine, Andrew; Sharpe, Kieran - 2022

We study the gender pay gap in the labor market for CEOs by analysing 1,174 outsider CEO successions over the past three decades across 18 countries. We find that male and female CEOs receive a similar compensation overall but this masks marked gender differences in the pay structure: namely,...

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