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Elite capture of foreign aid : evidence from offshore bank accounts
Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Johannesen, Niels; Rijkers, Bob - 2020
Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management, but not in other financial centers. The estimates are...
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Political capture of decentralization : vote-buying through grants-financed local jurisdictions
Khemani, Stuti - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662221
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Why multi-stakeholder groups succeed and fail
Truex, Rory; Søreide, Tina - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901295
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Political connections and financial constraints : evidence from transition countries
Bussolo, Maurizio; De Nicola, Francesca; Panizza, Ugo; … - 2019
This paper examines whether political connections ease financial constraints faced by firms. Using firm-level data from six Central and Eastern European economies, the paper shows that politically connected firms: (i) have high levels of leverage, (ii) have low levels of profitability, (iii) are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113824
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Female business leaders, business and cultural environment, and productivity around the world
Fang, Sheng; Goh, Chorching; Roberts, Mark; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2020
Studies of female business leaders and economic performance are rarely conducted with worldwide observational data, and with considerations on the underlying cultural, institutional, and business environment. This paper uses worldwide, firm-level data from more than 100 countries to study how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241361
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Up before dawn : experimental evidence from a cross-border trader training at the Democratic Republic of Congo–Rwanda border
Croke, Kevin; García Mora, María Elena; Goldstein, … - 2020
-border traders - many of whom are women - face harassment and corruption, which can undermine these potential gains. This paper … procedures, tariffs, and rights to small-scale traders to facilitate border crossings, lower corruption, and reduce gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228426
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Digital innovation in East Asia : restrictive data policies matter?
Ferracane, Martina Francesca; Van der Marel, Erik - 2020
Digital technologies encourage companies to innovate with new processes, goods, and services, which ultimately enhance their competitiveness in local and global markets. This paper analyzes whether a wide set of data restrictions are negatively associated with digital innovation of firms. The...
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Corruption and country size : evidence using firm-level survey data
Amin, Mohammed; Yew Chong Soh - 2019
What sorts of conditions make some countries more prone to corruption than the others? This is an important question … for understanding how corruption arises and how to combat it. The present paper attempts to answer this question by … exploring the link between the size of the country and corruption. Economic theory suggests advantages and disadvantages of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051811
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Corruption, regulatory burden and firm productivity
Amin, Mohammed; Ulku, Hulya - 2019
Using firm-level data from more than 39,000 firms in 111 economies, this paper tests the hypothesis that corruption … between corruption and firm productivity when regulation is high and an insignificant relationship when it is low. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058952
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Informality, harassment, and corruption : evidence from informal enterprise data from Harare, Zimbabwe
Francis, David - 2019
New representative survey data for Harare, Zimbabwe are used to analyze the conditions under which informal businesses encounter requests for bribes. A simple model develops basic expectations of bribe exposure: those with higher opportunity costs of formalizing and with a higher ability to pay...
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