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How do Institutions Affect Corruption and the Shadow Economy?

Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - EconWPA - 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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CORRUPTION AROUND THE WORLD: EVIDENCE FROM A STRUCTURAL MODEL

Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - EconWPA - 2004

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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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852477

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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Competition and Quality: Evidence from the NHS Internal Market 1991-1999

Propper, Carol; Burgess, Simon; Abraham, Denise - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003

Payer-driven competition has been widely advocated as a means of increasing efficiency in health care markets. The 1990s reforms to the UK health service followed this path. We examine whether competition led to better outcomes for patients, as measured by death rates after treatment following...

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The Use and Usefulness of Performance Measures in the Public Sector

Propper, Carol; Wilson, Deborah - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2003

The paper focuses on the empirical evidence on the use and usefulness of performance measures in the public sector. It begins with consideration of the features of the public sector which make the use of performance measures complex: the issues of multiple principals and multiple tasks. It...

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Girls Rock, Boys Roll: An Analysis of the Age 14-16 Gender Gap in English Schools

Burgess, Simon; McConnell, Brendon; Propper, Carol; … - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2003

The aim of this paper is to examine gender related differences in performance at age 16. We investigate a number of possible explanations for the underachievement of boys relative to girls, the so-called ‘gender gap’. We employ a national dataset of the matched exam results of the entire...

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Mapping choice in the NHS: Analysis of routine data

Damiani, Mike; Dixon, Jennifer; Propper, Carol - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2004

New policies in the National Health Service in England seek to extend the choice of provider of care for patients on waiting lists for elective surgery. We try to identify where in the country there are likely to be most constraints on choice for patients waiting over 6 months for elective care....

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Explaining differences in hospital performance: Does the answer lie in the labour market?

Burgess, Simon; Gossage, Denise; Propper, Carol - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2003

This paper examines the relationship between performance of English public sector hospitals (NHS trusts) and the quality of their nursing staff. Performance ratings of NHS trusts published in 2001 and 2002 indicate a clear regional divide. This divide is not explained by lower medical need. The...

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Expenditure on healthcare in the UK: a review of the issues

Propper, Carol - In: Fiscal Studies 22 (2001) 2, pp. 151-183

This review examines the performance of the UK healthcare system. After presenting data on the level and distribution of resources, three topics are examined. The first is the lessons from international comparisons of evidence on expenditure, equity and healthcare outcomes. The second is the...

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