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Transfer of Institutions: Actors and Constraints - The Russian Case in a Global Context
Oleinik, Anton - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005
Modernity is usually thought as a complex society with clearly differentiated spheres of everyday life. It means, in particular, that economic rules do not interfere with the norms structuring political, social, scientific and other interactions. The complex, differentiated society sharply...
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Corruption Dynamics: The Golden Goose Effect
Niehaus, Paul; Sukhtankar, Sandip - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 5 (2013) 4, pp. 230-69
Theoretical work on disciplining corrupt agents has emphasized the role of expected future rents?for example, efficiency wages. Yet taken seriously this approach implies that illicit future rents should also deter corruption. We study this "golden goose" effect in the context of a statutory wage...
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Tackling the Undeclared Economy in Croatia
Baric, Marijana; Williams, Colin C. - In: South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics 11 (2013) 1, pp. 7-36
To evaluate how undeclared work is being tackled in Croatia this paper reports an e-survey and in-depth interviews with … key stakeholders in Croatia. It is revealed that, compared with the European Economic Area countries, Croatia has a weak … develop a single body to better coordinate actions to tackle the undeclared economy in Croatia and for a shift towards an …
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The Role of Local Officials in New Democracies: Evidence from Indonesia
Martinez-Bravo, Monica - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 4, pp. 1244-87
This paper shows that the body of appointed officials that a new democracy inherits from the previous regime is a key determinant of the extent of electoral fraud and clientelistic spending in new democracies. I develop a model that predicts that appointed officials have stronger incentives to...
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Evolución de la informalidad laboral en Colombia: determinantes macro y efectos locales
García, Gustavo Adolfo - DEPARTAMENTO NACIONAL DE PLANEACIÓN - 2010
En este trabajo se estudian los determinantes macroeconómicos de la informalidad laboral en Colombia. Teniendo en cuenta varias definiciones de informalidad, se encuentra que este fenómeno tiene una relación inversa con el nivel de educación de la población ocupada y el grado de desarrollo...
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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability, and Corruption: Evidence from US States
Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 8, pp. 2456-81
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that this isolation reduces accountability. We then provide direct evidence that the spatial distribution of population relative to the capital affects different...
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Government size, market-orientation and regional corruption: Evidence from the provincial level panel data
ZHOU Li¡¯an; Jing, TAO - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 4 (2009) 3, pp. 425-448
Using a panel data at the provincial level during the period of 1989–2004, this paper examines the effects of social and economic factors such as government scale, privatization, openness, and education on regional corruption. Applying a fixed-effect model and IV estimation, we find that...
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Audit Risk and Rent Extraction: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Brazil
Zamboni, Yves; Litschig, Stephan - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
We report results from a randomized policy experiment designed to test whether increased audit risk deters rent extraction in local public procurement and service delivery in Brazil. Our estimates suggest that temporarily increasing annual audit risk by about 20 percentage points reduced the...
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CORRUPTION IN EUROPE: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Popescu, Ada-Iuliana - In: CES Working Papers 6(2A) (2014) August, pp. 150-160
Reducing corruption is one of the world’s many challenges. The fight against corruption is often discouraging. Yet, Europe continues to advance its anti-corruption initiatives. While the fight against has seen some victories, significant gains are few, especially in the Central and South...
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Finanzverwaltung von innen: Neue Ansätze ihrer empirisch-ökonomischen Erforschung
Schöbel, Enrico - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 231 (2011) 4, pp. 558-571
Unlike economic theories of tax law enforcement, real income tax law application requires thorough interpretation of the law and the actual facts with regard to tax purposes. The automatic assessment produced by a computer program in German tax offices suggests the existence of a mechanically...
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