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"Grease" or "sand" the wheels of economic development : a meta-analysis of corruption
Hugo, Ella; Savage, David; Torgler, Benno - 2021
Corruption literature within economics has long returned ambiguous results with no concise cause or impact of … corruption identified. This meta-analysis aims to find synergy within the corruption literature by assessing macroeconomic … empirical studies that evaluate whether corruption "greases or sands" the wheels of economic development. The meta …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012522615
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Privatization, competition and corruption : how characteristics of bribe takers and payers after bribe payments to utilities
Clarke, George R. G.; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2002
Many recent studies have looked at the macroeconomic, cultural and institutional determinants of corruption at the … bribes and the firms paying bribes affect the equilibrium level of corruption in the sector. Bribe takers (utility employees … empirical literature on corruption is how to distinguish between the "endogenous harassment" and "speed money" theories of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597961
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Two views on institutions and development: the grand transition vs the primacy of institutions
Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2007
The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265602
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Climate policy and economic growth in developing countries
Buchner, Barbara; Galeotti, Marzio - 2003
Although developing countries face a drastic increase in their greenhouse gas emissions, mitigation actions against climate change do not rank high among their priorities. The obvious reason lies in the necessity for them to continue the development process, which is characterised by pressing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592731
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Environment and economic growth : is technical change the key to decoupling?
Galeotti, Marzio - 2003
The relationship between economic growth and pollution is very complex, depending upon a host of different factors. Thus the study of this phenomenon represents a challenging endeavor. While most economics papers begin with theory and support that theory with econometric evidence, the literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592753
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The impact of fiscal decentralization : a survey
Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Lago Peñas, Santiago; Sacchi, … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450625
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The consequences of corruption : evidences from China
Bin Dong; Torgler, Benno - 2010
With complementary Chinese data sets and alternative corruption measures, we explore the consequences of corruption …. Adopting a novel approach we provide evidence that corruption can have both, positive and negative effects, on economic … development. The overall impact of corruption might be the balance of the two simultaneous effects within a specific institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729042
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Weather and income : lessons from the main European regions
García-León, David - 2015
Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517704
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Sectoral infrastructure investment in an unbalanced growing economy : the case of India
Ghate, Chetan; Glomm, Gerhard; Liu, Jialu - 2012
We study the sectoral allocation of public infrastructure investments in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors in India. In addition to the changing employment and output shares of these two sectors, the capital output ratio in agriculture in India has fallen, while it has risen in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009674819
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Women's rights and development
Fernández, Raquel - 2010
Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process of development (i.e., capital accumulation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729320