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literature: corruption may affect a country's composition of capital inflows in a way that makes it more likely to experience a …
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This paper studies the impact of corruption in a host country on foreign investor's preference for a joint venture … versus a wholly-owned subsidiary. There is a basic trade-off in using local partners. On the one hand, corruption makes local … hand, corruption decreases the effective protection of investor's intangible assets and lowers the probability that …
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obstacles associated with corruption and weak institutions. We model these circumstances in a principal-agent framework with … economic corruption as an indicator of the strength of property right enforcement within a given country. We compare corruption … levels for a large cross section of countries in 1989 to subsequent FDI flows from 1990 to 1999. We find that corruption is …
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possibility that some features of FDI host countries, such as bureaucratic corruption, may deter inward FDI, but are positively … explicitly into account corruption level in host countries and using a firm-level data set on investment projects in 24 …
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In this paper we analyze the link between corruption money laundering and round-trip investment via offshore … the conclusion that there is a strong link between round-trip investment and corruption money laundering …
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We present an infinite-horizon model of moral standards where self-esteem and unconscious drives play key roles. In the model, an individual receives random temptations (such as bribe offers) and must decide which to resist. Individual actions depend both on conscious intent and a type...
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Evidence on the relationship between political contributions and legislators' voting behavior is marred by concerns about endogeneity in the estimation process. Using a legislator's offspring sex mix as an exogenous variable, we employ a two-stage least squares estimation procedure to predict...
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to be lower. We identify such countries using measures of corruption and transparency in arms trade. We also suggest a …
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In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household consumption increases the bribery...
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are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of …
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