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The formation and expansion of the European Union (EU) have attracted much attention. However, the impact on the level of corruption in a nation after joining the Union has not been formally studied. Any nation that joins the European Union potentially faces two different and opposite effects on...
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relative effects of military and non-military government spending. Results show that, other things being the same, nations with … larger military spending have smaller shadow economies, while the effect of non-military government spending is statistically …
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The formation and expansion of the European Union (EU) have attracted much attention. However, the impact on the level of corruption in a nation after joining the Union has not been formally studied. Any nation that joins the European Union potentially faces two different and opposite effects on...
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compliance with government regulations and lowers tax collections. Our main hypothesis is that epidemics positively impacts the …
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Using recent data on the unvaccinated across U.S. states, this paper focuses on the determinants of vaccine hesitancy related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Results show that more prosperous states and states with more elderly and physicians have lower vaccine hesitancy. There was some evidence of...
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Studying a relatively under-researched aspect in economics, this paper examines the nexus between corruption and academic freedom. Our main hypothesis is that greater corruption undermines academic freedom and we test this hypothesis using cross-national data for 104 nations over the years 2012...
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government decentralization did not. There were differences in the signs, magnitudes, and significance of the influence of some …
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Adding to the literature on the effects of government decentralization, this paper uses a large sample of individual … responses from more than a hundred countries about public’s perceptions of government’s performance along various dimensions to … qualitatively alike in that greater decentralization in each case improves perceptions of the government performance. Federalist …
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