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This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a crosssection of 120 countries and a...
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This paper investigates the design of incentives in a dynamic adverse selection framework when agents' production technologies display learning effects and agents' rate of learning is private knowledge. In a simple two-period model with full commitment available to the principal, we show that...
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The effects that regulation has on the innovation and the introduction of new telecommunications services have not been … previously quantified in the literature. This study compares state-regulated services in Indiana under rate of return regulation … (RoRR) and under alternative regulation. The econometric model comprises an count process (for innovation) followed by a …
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There is a widespread public perception that the provision of NAS undermines auditor independence. In order to protect auditor independence, the regulatory frameworks of many countries include regulations and guidelines which auditors are required to observe. This paper provides a comparative...
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Estimating market power is often complicated by a lack of reliable marginal cost data. Instead, policy-makers often rely on summary statistics of the market, thought to be correlated with price cost margins? such as concentration ratios or the HHI. In many industries, these summary statistics...
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In this paper we estimate the amount of tax evasion in customs authorities in both Kenya and Tanzania by calculating … measurement error is correlated with the tax rates in both Kenya and Tanzania. According to the Transparency International … Corruption Perceptions Index, Kenya is more corrupt than Tanzania, but we find that the coefficient on tax is higher in Tanzania …
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Kenya has ascribed to the Millennium Declaration and is already in the process of mobilising resources and instituting … measures to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A MDGs status report on Kenya indicates that progress has been made … requirements are not extremely large to reach the MDGs in Kenya. If the resources are effectively used and targeted to MDG sectors …
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The recent hike in food prices has been of great concern to policymakers, international organisations and donor agencies. In this paper we discuss, both from a partial and general equilibrium perspective, the impact of the recent price increase on maize on Kenyan households. Simulating a 100%...
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This paper determines which children work and how much children work in Kenya. The results show that the educational …
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The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the adoption of technological packages in agriculture Kenya on the … Government of Kenya. To this end, we collected data on beneficiaries through a survey of 1000 households in the district of … Lugari, in Western Kenya. We use propensity score matching to compute the average treatment effect on the treated. We find …
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