combatting health care fraud. Between 2003 and 2017, Medicare spent $7.7 billion on 37.5 million regularly scheduled, non … more cost-effective than ex post ligation for preventing health care fraud …

COVID deaths is conditional on the existence of healthcare equity and lower political corruption, because the health sector …

corruption on productivity. Corruption is defined as a “bribe tax” and is compared to another form of institutional inefficiency …, which is often believed to be closely linked with corruption: the “time tax” imposed on firms by red tape. When testing … cumbersome bureaucratic requirements. When the sample is split between EU and non-EU countries, the time tax turns out to have a …

study examines the effects of corruption on productivity. Corruption is defined as a "bribe tax" and is compared with … another form of institutional inefficiency, which is often believed to be closely linked with corruption: the "time tax … to vary depending on overall institutional quality: in countries where corruption is more prevalent and the legal …

identification of a further control variable affecting stock performances: corruption. The goal of this study is an enquiry about the … connections between European industrial stock returns and a macroeconomic index of corruption in order to assess the impact of … corruption in the performances of listed European industrial companies. This paper is organized as follows: the first paragraph …

corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease … grease" hypothesis by investigating whether corruption may increase productivity by helping reduce the time tax on firms … controlling for EU membership the effects of the bribe tax are more harmful in non-EU countries. This suggests that the …