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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 … governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher …
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India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women …
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Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …
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corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to …
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This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...
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Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to … corruption on growth from 41 empirical studies. The main factors explaining the variation in these estimates are whether the … model accounts for institutions and trade openness (both are found to deflate the negative effect of corruption), authors …
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Conventional wisdom depicts corruption as a tax on incumbent firms. This paper challenges this view in two ways. First …, by arguing that corruption matters not so much because of the value of the bribe ("tax"), but because of another less … studied feature of corruption, namely bribe unavoidability. Second, we argue that the social costs of corruption arise not …
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This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to … identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the … Baccalaureate. To exploit the effect of an income shock on corruption, we use a difference-in-difference strategy and compare the …
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particular be true for petty corruption where small amounts of bribes are involved and the detection rate is rather low. To … conducting a real effort task in every period.Independent of the treatments we already find high rates of corruption in very … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …
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A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … to find that both 'Corruption Perception Index' and 'ICRG' index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic …
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