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In-group favouritism and out-group discimination in naturally occurring groups
Harris, Donna; Abbink, Klaus - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
against supporters of the rival party.  Despite a strong anti-corruption stance of the yellow-shirt movement members of both …
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Death tolls from natural disasters: Influence of interactions among fiscal decentralization, institutions and economic development
Yamamura, Eiji - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2012
effect is strengthened in countries with lower level of public sector corruption and better functioning legal systems …
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Death tolls from natural disasters: Influence of interactions between fiscal decentralization, institution, and economic development
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
countries with lower levels of public sector corruption and better functioning legal systems. Furthermore, the interaction …
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Institution, economic development, and impact of natural disasters
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
countries with less public sector corruption, and for OECD countries with better functioning legal systems, but not for non …
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Corruption, Public Procurement, and the Budget Composition: Theory and Evidence from OECD Countries
Hessami, Zohal - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between corruption and the composition of public expenditures. First, I derive a … theoretical model that links the degree of corruption in a country - to be understood as the prevailing culture of corruption - to … corruption. This distortion occurs at the expense of spending categories that do not involve public procurement (social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883489
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Rent-Seeking Russia
Levin, M.; G. Satarov. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 1 (2014)
The Russian economy is in transition period "from plan to market", which is characterized by immature institutions and expansion of rent-seeking behavior. In this article, the authors consider rent as a?possible excess return above the minimum income needed to encourage an agent to implement the...
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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption Evidence from US States: Evidence from US States
Campante, Filipe R; Do, Quoc-Anh - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2013
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in … accountability seems particularly important in explaining the connection between isolated capitals and corruption. We also find …
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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption Evidence from US States: Evidence from US States
Campante, Filipe R; Do, Quoc-Anh - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2013
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in … accountability seems particularly important in explaining the connection between isolated capitals and corruption. We also find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010936507
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Media Freedom and Democracy: Complements or Substitutes in the Fight against Corruption?
Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Hodler, Roland - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
Democracy and media freedom have been suggested as useful tools in the fight against political corruption, but so far … corruption-reducing effect of democracy becomes stronger as media freedom increases. Using panel data covering the period 1980 … democracy and media freedom in the fight against corruption is also supported by Indian state level data.  …
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Epidemic corruption: a bio-economic homology
Hathroubi, Salem - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für … - 2013
This paper aims to study corruption as an epidemic phenomenon using the epidemic diffusion model of Kermack and Mc …-Kendrick (1927). We seek to determine the dynamics of corruption and its impact on the composition of the population at a given time …. We determine a threshold epidemiological corruption based on the approximation of the honest population. …
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