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Institutionalized Corruption and the Kleptocratic State

Charap, Joshua; Harm, Christian - 1999

This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and … by creating a system of patronage and loyalty through corrupt bureaucracy. competetive corruption patterns are asociated … with anarchy and weak dictators, while strong dictators implement a system of monopolistic corruption. Efforts at public …

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THE IMPACT OF TAX MORALE ANDINSTITUTIONAL QUALITY ON THESHADOW ECONOMY

TORGLER, BENNO; SCHNEIDER, FRIEDRICH - CESifo GmbH <München> - 2007

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries´ institutional quality affect the shadoweconomy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literaturestrongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level andchanges of...

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Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance andInstitutional Quality: A Panel Analysis

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadoweconomy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literaturestrongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level andchanges of shadow...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863331

Corruption and Innovation: A Grease or Sand relationship?

Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008

This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity … be of utmost importance. Using a newly available dataset on African firms, it is shown that corruption has a negative … effect on product innovation and organisational innovation. Corruption does not affect process innovation while it …

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Speeding up Bureaucrats by Greasing Them- An Experimental Study

Gonzalez, Luis; Güth, Werner; Levati, Maria Vittoria - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2002

In the experiment two bureaucrats independently can grant a permitwith the profit of the private party depending on when the permit is given.Whereas one bureaucrat can only veto the project, the second one hasadditional discretion in granting the permit earlier or later. We speakof greasing when...

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Speeding up Bureaucrats by Greasing Them - An Experimental Study

González, Luis; Güth, Werner; Levati, Maria Vittoria - 2002

In the experiment two bureaucrats independently can grant a permit with the profit of the private party depending on when the permit is given. Whereas one bureaucrat can only veto the project, the second one has additional discretion in granting the permit earlier or later. (...)

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SHADOW ECONOMY, TAX MORALE, GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY : A PANEL ANALYSIS

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo GmbH <München>

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadoweconomy, using an international country panel and also within country data...

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Public governance of central banks: an approach from new institutional economics

Oritani, Yoshiharu - Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich <Basel> - 2010

Die Governance der Zentralbanken hat zwei Dimensionen: Corporate Governance und Public Governance. Public Governance ist ein institutioneller Rahmen, wobei die breite Öffentlichkeit eine Zentralbank regelt durch und durch die Legislative und Exekutive in einem Land. Dieses Papier argumentiert,...

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Embedded Interests and the Managerial Local State:Methanol Fuel-Switching in China

Kostka, Genia; Hobbs, William - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2010

This paper analyzes the determinants of alternative automobile fuel regulation and developmentsupport with a particular focus on methanol fuel. We find that embedded interests, bureaucraticreforms, and political circumstances in the Chinese national, provincial, and municipalgovernments have all...

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SORTING WITH MOTIVATED AGENTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SCHOOLCOMPETITION AND TEACHER INCENTIVES

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

This paper proposes a simple framework to study incentives and matching in the marketfor teachers. The framework is used to investigate the consequences of introducing incentivepay for teachers when contracts have both a matching and an incentive effect. Our analysissuggests that school...

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