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Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth
Campos, Nauro F. - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135630
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Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance
Kar, Saibal - 2011
We provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to formal sector in dual labor markets. We use a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated enforcement strategies. Firms which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120119
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Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021
We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325086
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Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis
Dreher, Axel - 2009
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158510
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Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies
Pflüger, Michael - 2009
the government incentive to impact on entry costs, and how entry subsidies can be used strategically in open economies. We … firms where government subsidizes entry of domestic entrepreneurs. Under autarky the entry subsidy indirectly corrects for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155605
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Fiscal Multipliers and the Labour Market in the Open Economy
Faia, Ester - 2010
Several contributions have recently assessed the size of fiscal multipliers both in RBC models and New Keynesian models. None of the studies considers a model with frictional labour markets which is a crucial element, particularly at times in which much of the fiscal stimulus has been directed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146168
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Biofuel Subsidies : An Open-Economy Analysis
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2013
We present a general equilibrium analysis of biofuel subsidies in an open-economy context. In the small-country case, when a Pigouvian tax on conventional fuels such as crude is in place, the optimal biofuel subsidy is zero. When the tax on crude is not available as a policy option, however, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095320
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?
Estrin, Saul - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129940
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Corruption and the Shadow Economy : A Structural Equation Model Approach
Buehn, Andreas - 2009
The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or … with two latent variables - extracts information on various dimensions of corruption and the shadow economy to contribute … and corruption. The results show that the shadow economy influences corruption more than corruption influences the shadow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159506
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Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality : A Panel Analysis
Torgler, Benno - 2007
This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777822