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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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survey of enterprises carried out for the GCR, we find that firms from emerging economies single out corruption and excessive …
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Across 69 countries, higher tax rates are associated with less unofficial activity as a percent of GDP but corruption … burden of bureaucracy and corruption. Dodging the Grabbing Hand in this way reduces tax revenues as a percent of both …
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survey of enterprises carried out for the GCR, we find that firms from emerging economies single out corruption and excessive …
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Across 69 countries, higher tax rates are associated with less unofficial activity as a percent of GDP but corruption … burden of bureaucracy and corruption. Dodging the Grabbing Hand in this way reduces tax revenues as a percent of both …
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Ukraine face higher effective tax rates, worse bureaucratic corruption, greater incidence of mafia protection, and have less … corruption is significantly associated with hiding output …
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This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources...
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as rule of law, voice and accountability, corruption control, and state capture, we then provide evidence which suggests … and governance, in controlling corruption, and in improving institutional quality -- although there is clearly variance … within a country, in turn affecting governance and corruption, has often been under-emphasized in program design. These argue …
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In this paper we survey the common explanations of barter in transition economies and expose them to detailed survey data on 165 barter deals in Ukraine in 1997. The evidence does not support the notion that soft budget constraints, lack of restructuring, or that the virtual economy are the...
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content of macro-economic policies for well over a decade. Firms from emerging economies single out corruption and excessive … laws by fiat or creating new Anti-Corruption Commissions). …
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