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Corruption Around the World : Evidence from a Structural Model

Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - 2005

The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy … makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. While informative, these indices … are ordinal in nature and hence provide no indication of how much economic loss is attributed to corruption. Arguably …

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The Economic Costs of Corruption : A Survey and New Evidence

Dreher, Axel; Herzfeld, Thomas - 2006

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic costs of corruption. Corruption affects economic growth … biases the composition of government expenditures. The second part of the paper estimates the effect of corruption on … calculate the total effect of corruption: An increase of corruption by about one index point reduces GDP growth by 0 …

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How Do Institutions Affect Corruption and the Shadow Economy?

Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - 2005

corruption. It shows that an improvement in institutional quality reduces the shadow economy and affects the corruption market …. The exact relationship between corruption and institutional quality is, however, ambiguous and depends on the relative … effectiveness of the institutional quality in the shadow and corruption markets. The predictions of the model are empirically tested …

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Chapter 18 Teacher Quality

Hanushek, Eric A.; Rivkin, Steven G. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 1051-1078). 2006

Improving the quality of instruction is a central component to virtually all proposals to raise school quality. Unfortunately, policy recommendations often ignore existing evidence about teacher labor markets and the determinants of teacher effectiveness in the classroom. This chapter reviews...

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How Do Institutions Affect Corruption and the Shadow Economy

Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - Business School, University of Exeter - 2005

corruption. It shows that an improvement in institutional quality reduces the shadow economy and a?ects the corruption market …. The exact relationship between corruption and institutional quality is, however, ambiguous and depends on the relative e …?ectiveness of the institutional quality in the shadow and corruption markets. The predictions of the model are empirically tested …

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Corruption Around the World: Evidence from a Structural Model

Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - Business School, University of Exeter - 2007

The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy … makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. Recent research has shown that … perceived corruption might not be a good indicator of actual corruption in a country. In this paper, we employ a structural …

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Incentives in the public sector : evidence from a government agency

Burgess, Simon M.; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; … - 2012

This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We...