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human development indicators, as well as with higher competitiveness and lower corruption. Much progress can be attained …
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human development indicators, as well as with higher competitiveness and lower corruption. Much progress can be attained …
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better socio-economic and human development indicators, as well as with higher competitiveness and lower corruption. We …
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We contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of determinants of performance of cities. We construct a preliminary worldwide database for cities, containing variables and indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city...
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We contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of determinants of performance of cities. We construct a preliminary worldwide database for cities, containing variables and indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city...
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This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the resulting inequality as crony bias in the political...
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unbundles corruption to measure different types of corrupt transactions and provide detailed information on the characteristics … and performance of firms, we find that: i) corruption reduces FDI inflows and attracts lower quality investment in terms … kickbacks, while paying a lower overall bribe burden than domestic firms; iii) FDI firms undertake those forms of corruption …
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corruption, with little attention paid to the role played by firms. Consequently, the links between corporate governance and … Performance Survey (BEEPS) across 20 transition economies, providing an assessment of governance and corruption from the … survey design permits an in-depth empirical analysis of governance and corruption, unbundling governance into its component …
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Traditionally, national governance and corruption challenges have been seen as: i) particularly daunting in the poorer … undue influence. We construct a new set of ethics indices, encompassing forms of (legal) corruption not subject to … measurement in conventional (illegal) corruption indicators. It is found that manifestations of legal corruption may be more …
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