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Assessing China’s corporate sector vulnerabilities
Chivakul, Mali; Lam, W. Raphael - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281609
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The driving force behind the boom and bust in construction in Europe
Sun, Yan; Mitra, Pritha; Simone, Alejandro - 2013
This paper studies the factors behind pro-cyclical but widely varying construction shares (as a percent of GDP) across countries, with a strong focus on European countries. Using a dataset covering 48 countries (including advanced and emerging economies within and outside Europe) for 1990-2011,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012667515
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Mining spillovers in Chile
Pérez Ruiz, Esther - 2017
Chile's small open economy with significant mismatch between the production and consumption baskets may be represented by three stylized sectors, a commodity sector, a non-commodity tradable sector, and a non-tradable sector. This paper estimates the effect of copper price shocks on mining,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705352
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Latin America : Vulnerabilities Under Construction?
Cubeddu, Luis M. - 2012
This paper documents developments in mortgage credit and the housing sector in Latin America over the past decade, and compares them with those of other emerging economies. In particular, it examines the real estate and mortgage markets to assess whether (i) growth in mortgage credit is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395689
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A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Corruption in Bureaucracies
Dabla-Norris, Era - 2000
. Conditions under which lower-tier corruption arises as an equilibrium characterization of the game are identified. If … bureaucratic corruption sufficiently reduces the tax base, policies that deter corruption may be optimal. When monitoring is … expensive or ineffective, lower-level corruption arises as equilibrium. Tax farming and the sale of offices can occur in these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399923
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Corruption, Governmental Activities, and Markets
Tanzi, Vito - 1994
Paper discusses the factors that contribute to the spread of corruption as well as the implications of corruption for … markets and for public sector activities. It is argued that corruption can be contained mainly by a scaling down of the public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398409
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Lessons from two public sector reforms in Italy
Belhocine, Nazim; Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah - 2020
The reform of the Italian public administration has been a priority for at least two decades, with several major initiatives undertaken toward modernization and simplification. Notwithstanding laudable intentions, however, progress remains limited. This analysis is a case study of two reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177638
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Crypto, corruption, and capital controls : cross-country correlations
Alnasaa, Marwa; Georgiev, Nikolaj; Honda, Jiro; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169885
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Governance for inclusive growth
Ivanyna, Maksym; Salerno, Andrea - 2021
discretion and hence the space for policy errors; (2) human resource policies, capacity building, effective anti-corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604784
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A sentiment-enhanced corruption perception index
Cao, Yongquan; Fan, Yingjie; Hlatshwayo, Sandile; … - 2021
Direct measurement of corruption is difficult due to its hidden nature, and measuring the perceptions of corruption via … countries by applying sentiment analysis to Financial Times articles over 2005-18. This sentiment-enhanced corruption perception … index (SECPI) captures not only the frequncy of corruption related articles, but also the articles' sentiment towards …
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