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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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852478
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125947
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125948
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066711
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071302
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Cross-country determinants of life satisfaction: exploring different determinants across groups in society
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper explores a wide range of cross-country determinants of life satisfaction exploiting a database of 90,000 observations in 70 countries. We distinguish four groups of aggregate variables as potential determinants of satisfaction: political, economic, institutional, and human development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071346
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Formal Institutions and Subjective Well-Being: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence
Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596419
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Formal institutions and subjective well-being: Revisiting the cross-country evidencee
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2008
A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277738
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Formal institutions and subjective well-being: Revisiting the cross-country evidence
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008
A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281226