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Price adjustment under the table: Evidence on efficiency-enhancing corruption
Levy, Daniel - 2007
prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015217716
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Speed Money: Time, Corruption, and Trade
Shepherd, Ben - 2009
This paper shows that longer trade times are associated with higher levels of trade-related corruption, consistent with …” to possibly corrupt customs officials. This finding is robust to the use of corruption measures based on perceptions and … border procedures and rampant corruption acts as a significant drag on international trade, in line with the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015218207
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Framework for Analisis and Improvement of Agrarian Dynamics
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2009
In this paper we incorporate interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences), and suggest a framework for analyzing and improvement of governance of socio-economics dynamic of agriculture....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015219622
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Framework for Analisis and Improvement of Agrarian Dynamics
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2009
In this paper we incorporate interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences), and suggest a framework for analyzing and improvement of governance of socio-economics dynamic of agriculture....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015219627
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Would Recession Induce More Intermediation in the Corrupt Informal Sector?
Mandal, Biswajit - 2009
In this paper my endeavor is to give you an idea about the upshot of a recessionary phase on the intermediation activity which is required for the survival of the informal fragment of the society. Informal part of the economy covers a large chunk of the total economic activities in any stylized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015219958
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Informal Wage, Informal Price and Extortion under Migration and Tariff Reform
Mandal, Biswajit; Chaudhuri, Saswati - 2010
In this paper we propose a theoretical model where formal and informal sectors co-exist in tandem. Trade union segregates some labor from being formal. Capital is not allowed to freely move between formal and informal sectors. Using this sort of framework it has been shown that immigration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015225546
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Informal Wage, Informal Price and Extortion under Migration and Tariff Reform
Mandal, Biswajit; Chaudhuri, Saswati - 2011
In this paper we propose a theoretical model where formal and informal sectors co-exist in tandem. Trade union segregates some labor from being formal. Capital is not allowed to freely move between formal and informal sectors. Using this sort of framework it has been shown that immigration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015225700
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Firm Registration and Bribes: Results from a Microenterprise Survey in Africa
Clarke, George R.G. - 2011
If corrupt bureaucrats target registered firms, then corruption may discourage registration. Using data from a survey … of 4,801 microenterprises in Zambia, this paper looks at whether corruption is a more or less serious problem for … about corruption than unregistered firms. This suggests that remaining informal and out-of-sight might reduce the burden of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015227540
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Is corruption anti labor?
Roy, Suryadipta - 2007
This paper investigates the effect of corruption on trade openness in low-income and high-income countries. The results … suggest corruption is anti-labor, since it reduces trade in low-income countries and increases trade in high-income countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015227616
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Informal Wage, Informal Price and Extortion under Migration and Tariff Reform
Mandal, Biswajit; Chaudhuri, Saswati - 2011
In this paper we propose a theoretical model where formal and informal sectors co-exist in tandem. Trade union segregates some labor from being formal. Capital is not allowed to freely move between formal and informal sectors. Using this sort of framework it has been shown that immigration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015229008