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Economic reforms and productivity-enhancing reallocation in the post-Soviet transition

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Transition from plan to market, height and well-being

Adserà, Alícia; Dalla Pozza, Francesca; Guriev, Sergej; … - 2019

Using newly available data, we re-evaluate the impact of transition from plan to market in former communist countries on objective and subjective well-being. We find clear evidence of the high social cost of early transition reforms: cohorts born around the start of transition are shorter than...

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Corruption, norm violation and decay in social capital

Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016

The paper studies the link between corruption and social capital (measured as trust), using data from a lab experiment … behind any such behavioral spillover. Results suggest that a) there is a negative spillover effect of corruption on trust and …

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On the interpretation of world values survey trust question : global expectations vs. local beliefs

Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016

How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an incentivized Trust Game. Evidence supports findings from one strand of the fractured literature - the WVS...

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The analysis of human feelings: a practical suggestion for a robustness test

Bloem, Jerey R.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

Governments, multinational companies, and researchers today collect unprecedented amounts of data on human feelings. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental stress, societal trust, and other important variables. Yet...

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Vaccination policy and trust

Jelnov, Artyom; Jelnov, Pavel - 2021

less likely to adopt a mandatory vaccination policy. One unit of the Corruption Perception Index (scaled from 0 to 10) is … that is lower by 10 pp. In addition, Google Trends data show that public interest in corruption is correlated with interest … in vaccination. The insight from our analysis is that corruption affects not only the supply but also the demand for …

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Why populist democracy promotes market liberalization

Grosjean, Pauline (contributor); … - 2008

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases citizens' support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy relies on the restriction of the sample to...

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Former communist party membership and bribery in the post-socialist countries

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Hinks, Timothy - 2018

. Overall, our findings suggest that the proclivity to corruption of the former Communist party members has been transmitted … through family and thus sustained over time, contributing to corruption decades after the demise of the Socialist bloc. …

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The empire is dead, long live the empire! : long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy

Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - 2011

Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …. -- Habsburg Empire ; trust ; corruption ; institutions ; borders …

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Trust and bribery : the role of the quid pro quo and the link with crime

Hunt, Jennifer (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002093694

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