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Governance Matters VI : Governance Indicators for 1996-2006

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2007

Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. This …

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Governance Matters VII : Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2007

Kaufmann, Daniel - 2008

Corruption. The latest aggregate indicators are based on hundreds of specific and disaggregated individual variables measuring …

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Governance Matters V : Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators for 1996-2005

Kaufmann, Daniel - 2016

absence of violence, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption. The latest …

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The Creation of the Rule of Law and the Legitimacy of Property Rights : The Political and Economic Consequences of a Corrupt Privatization

Hoff, Karla; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2006

How does the lack of legitimacy of property rights affect the dynamics of the creation of the rule of law? The authors investigate the demand for the rule of law in post-communist economies after privatization under the assumption that theft is possible, that those who have stolen assets cannot...

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Governance Matters VIII : Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2009

Corruption. These aggregate indicators are based on hundreds of specific and disaggregated individual variables measuring various …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206912

Does Greater Regulatory Burden Lead to More Corruption? Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries

Amin, Mohammad - 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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Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets : Evidence from Firm Surveys in 88 Developing Countries

Knack, Stephen - 2017

competition and corruption levels. This paper adds to the evidence base, using data on almost 34,000 firms from the World Bank …

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Glass Barriers : Constraints to Women's Small-Scale Cross-Border Trade in Cambodia and Lao Pdr

Seror, Marlon Armand Remy - 2017

Trade facilitation projects often assume indirect benefits for small-scale, cross-border traders. Recent studies have shown the challenges faced in Africa by this population, especially women, but it remains unknown in Cambodia and the Lao People's Democratic Republic, despite large trade...

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Informality, Harassment, and Corruption : Evidence from Informal Enterprise Data from Harare, Zimbabwe

Francis, David C. - 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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Corruption, Regulatory Burden and Firm Productivity

Amin, Mohammad - 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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