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This paper examines the determinants of corruption in transition economies. We found that the progress of structural … reform, comprising marketization, rule of law, and democratization had a crucial impact on the extent of corruption control …
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The paper investigates the influence of path dependence on corruption in Russian regions. We show that even twenty … higher corruption. …
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Do corrupt people self select themselves in professions where the scope of corruption is high? We conduct a corruption … more corruption than private sector aspirants but the likelihood of being corrupt is same across two sectors. …
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Collective household models posit that each household member has access to a fraction of the household budget, called a resource share, which defines the shadow budget faced by a household member. Together with the within-household shadow price vector, the shadow budget determines the material...
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Using a novel dataset on 2012 tax inspections by the Hellenic Ministry of Finance in tourist and high economic activity areas in 13 regions in Greece we find significant evidence that the intensification of tax audits can induce tax compliance.
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repression policy, civil society is better off precommitting to fight corruption. …
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-owned firms. A natural experiment of exogenous trade policy change suggests that corruption may help private firms circumvent …
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There is a view in the literature that curbing corruption is concurrently growth augmenting. We present evidence that … such is not always the case: independent of its indirect effects, a drop in corruption is growth augmenting only if there … has been a persistent decline in corruption in the past. …
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This study finds that countries with high-IQ populations enjoy less corruption. I propose that this is because …
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We examine the effect of remittances on corruption using panel data for 111 countries over the period of 1986–2010. We … find that remittances increase corruption, especially in non-OECD countries. …
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