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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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Corruption and Country Size : Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data

Amin, Mohammad - 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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Dynamic Relationship between Corruption and Youth Unemployment : Empirical Evidences from a System GMM Approach

Bouzid, Bechir Naier - 2017

This paper addresses the causal relationship between corruption and youth unemployment from two different perspectives …. The discussion starts by asking how the corruption practices within government institutions that encourage the payment of … controlling for various macroeconomic and institutional factors, the development of corruption practices tend to increase the …

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Markets and Manipulation : Time for a Paradigm Shift?

Basu, Kaushik - 2017

paper shows how this new research can shed light on the ubiquity of corruption in so many societies, and proposes ideas for … controlling corruption …

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Public Spending and Outcomes : Does Governance Matter?

Rajkumar, Andrew Sunil - 2017

The authors examine the role of governance-measured by level of corruption and quality of bureaucracy-and ask how it …

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A New Cross-National Measure of Corruption

Escresa, Laarni - 2017

A new measure of cross-national corruption is constructed based on the geographic distribution of public officials … involved in cross-border corruption cases. A comparison is made between the Public Administration Corruption Index (PACI) and … increasingly valid cross-national measure of corruption …

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