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D Spillovers and Institutions.
Coe, David T. - 2008
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DATA -- III. ECONOMETRIC PRELIMINARIES -- IV. "INTERNATIONAL R&D SPILLOVERS" REVISITED -- V. INSTITUTIONS AND INTERNATIONAL R&D SPILLOVERS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX A: ALTERNATIVE SPECIFICATION -- APPENDIX B: DATA SOURCES AND DEFINITIONS --...
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Can Digitalization Help Deter Corruption in Africa?
Ouedraogo, Rasmane - 2020
This paper studies the effect of digitalization on the perception of corruption and trust in tax officials in Africa … digital adoption is associated with a reduction in the perception of corruption and an increase in trust in tax officials … the use of Internet on the perception of corruption. Yet, the paper shows that the dampening effect of digitalization on …
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Institutional Quality, Knightian Uncertainty, and Insurability : A Cross-Country Analysis
Erbas, S. Nuri - 2006
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Institutional Factors and Financial Sector Development
Toroyan, Hovhannes - 2009
The paper assesses the effects of certain institutional factors on financial sector development in Sub- Saharan Africa …
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Institutional Inertia
Valderrama, Laura - 2009
We study the relative efficiency of outside-owned versus employee-owned firms and analyze implications for institutional change in a context of technological innovation. When decisions are made through majority voting, the vote on technology choice is used to influence the later vote on the...
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What Makes Growth Sustained?
Ostry, Jonathan David - 2008
to export manufactures, greater openness to FDI, and avoidance of exchange rate overvaluation favorable for durati …
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Corruption and Technology-Induced Private Sector Development.
Yehoue, Etienne B - 2006
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Corruption Kills: Global Evidence from Natural Disasters
Cevik, Serhan - 2023
corruption increases the loss of human lives caused by natural disasters, using a large panel of 135 countries during the period … 1980-2020. The econometric analysis provides convincing evidence that corruption increases the number of disaster … corruption in a given country, the greater the number of fatalities as a share of population due to natural disasters. Our …
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Assessing Vulnerabilities to Corruption in Public Procurement and Their Price Impact
Abdou, Aly - 2022
Public procurement can be highly vulnerable to corruption. This paper outlines a methodology and results in assessing … corruption risks in public procurement and their impact on relative prices, using large databases on government contracts and … corruption risk factor (aggregated in a synthetic corruption risk index). While there are intrinsic limitations to our study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060415
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Donor competition for aid impact, and aid fragmentation
Annen, Kurt; Moers, Luc - 2012
This paper shows that donors that maximize relative aid impact spread their budgets across many recipient countries in a unique Nash equilibrium, explaining aid fragmentation. This equilibrium may be inefficient even without fixed costs, and the inefficiency increases in the equality of donors'...
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