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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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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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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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 …

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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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Cabinet size and governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wehner, Joachim; Mills, Linnea - 2020

. Scholarship on elite clientelism links cabinet positions with corruption and practices that undermine sound policy making. This …

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Does democratization promote competition? : Indonesian manufacturing pre and post Suharto

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Kochanova, Anna; Rijkers, Bob - 2020

Does democratization promote economic competition? This paper documents that the disruption of political connections associated with Suharto's fall had a modest pro-competitive effect on Indonesian manufacturing industries in which his family had extensive business interests. Firms with...

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Does greater regulatory burden lead to more corruption? : evidence using firm-level survey data for developing countries

Amin, Mohammed; Yew Chong Soh - 2020

simple way to combat corruption. However, empirical evidence on the corruption and regulation nexus is limited. Further, the … corruption indices used are based on experts' opinions, which may suffer from perception bias. The present paper attempts to … analysis finds a large, positive effect of regulatory burden on corruption. For the baseline results, the bribery rate is …

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