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Do Freedom of Information Laws Decrease Corruption?
Tavares, Samia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
It has been argued that greater transparency is needed to reduce corruption. One way of increasing transparency is through the adoption of Freedom of Information (FOI) laws. This paper uses the introduction of FOI laws as a natural experiment to determine their effect on corruption. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836763
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Gender, corruption and sustainable growth in transition countries
Michailova, Julija; Melnykovska, Inna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Numerous studies have found negative connection between corruption level and economic development. At the same time few of them demonstrate correlation between women representation in politics and corruption level. This paper analyzes correlation between gender and corruption for a specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059084
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Public choice and the economic analysis of anarchy: a survey
Powell, Benjamin; Stringham, Edward - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Public choice economists began studying the economics of anarchy in the 1970s. Since then, the amount of research on anarchy has burgeoned. This article surveys the important public choice contributions to the economics of anarchy. Following the lead of the early public choice economists, many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684866
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Political environment a ground for public sector corruption? Evidence from a cross-country analysis
Kumara, Ajantha Sisira; Handapangoda, Wasana Sampath - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This study employs the instrumental variable two-stage least squares regression approach for the data for 121 countries to explore the impact of a country’s political environment on its level of corruption. The study provides strong evidence that a higher degree of rule of law, press freedom,...
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Das ökonomische und politische Dilemma Europas
Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
symptoms of the problem. The Result is, that a political problem of legitimacy is called into the world that has mainly two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212950
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Driving while black: do police pass the test?
Mason, Patrick L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
significance of police discrimination against social groups. This paper presents and applies a nonparametric test that is robust to … drivers. More particularly, there is evidence of police bias against African American male and Latino drivers by all officers … and no evidence of police bias against white male drivers by any group of officers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619310
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“The Right to the City” An Ecosystemic Approach to Better Cities, Better Life
Pilon, André Francisco; A. F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
, culture, justice, labour, environment, health, safety, housing, leisure, transport, consumption. This year, the United Nations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685152
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On the redistributive efficiency of fiscal policy
Kyriacou, Andreas; Muinelo-Gallo, Leonel; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This article analyses the redistributive efficiency of public spending and taxation in a panel of both advanced and developing economies during the last three decades (1984-2012). In order to explore how redistribution is achieved through fiscal policies, a two-stage approach is applied. First,...
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Приватизация и рациональная структура собственности. Часть 2. Рационализация структуры собственности....
Polterovich (Полтерович), Victor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In the first part of the paper, it was shown that decisions on privatization have to be considered in the context of more general problem of finding a rational property structure in an economy. The second part demonstrates that public enterprises fulfill a number of special functions which are...
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Приватизация и рациональная структура собственности. Часть 1. Приватизация: проблема эффективности...
Polterovich (Полтерович), Victor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The problem of public sector governance is considered as the task of improving the ownership structure of the economy. In this regard, the first part of the paper provides a brief overview of the theory of privatization. The arguments of supporters and opponents of privatization are confronted...
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