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payoffs to the client’s decision. We test this frame work using a new data set on bribery of Peruvian public officials by … households. The theory predicts that bribery is more attractive to both parties when the client is richer, and we find … empirically that both bribery incidence and value are increasing in household income. However, 65% of the relation between bribery …
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This study provides the first systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household …-reported compensation in thepublic sector. Using the conditions of labor market equilibrium, we develop an aggregatemeasure of bribery and … find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460 mln and 580 mln U.S. dollars (0 …
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these recent events and the previous international bribery and corruption scandel involving the Australian Wheat Board where … index tends to suggest? Are these business practices in terms of bribery and corruption any better or worse than those of … our regional trading partners? Bribery and corruption can be defined differently depending on the perspective and the …
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This research discusses small decision making problems and petty corruption as their practical applications with a … structured economic experiment. One of examples of petty corruption considered includes demands for petty bribes by traffic …
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regarding bribery. Bribery in international business transactions can be seen as a function of not only the demand for such … representatives. This study addresses the propensity of firms from 30 different countries to engage in international bribery. The … study incorporates both domestic (economic development, culture, and domestic corruption in the supplying country) and …
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results of an extensive ethnographic field study of the 2006 to 2008 Siemens corruption scandal. We find that this event did … corporate corruption with regard to its regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive dimensions. It is therefore particularly … perspective we reconstruct the development of the institutional context of the phenomenon corruption as well as its effects on the …
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Seit dem Ende der Bretton-Woods Ära haben zahlreiche Bankenkrisen Volkswirtschaften immense Kosten auferlegt. Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit den politökonomischen Einflussfaktoren auf die Tiefe dieser Bankenkrisen. Es wird argumentiert, dass nur schnelle und tiefgreifende...
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welfare through their decisions. Yet, cases of central bank corruption abound. The dissertation provides examples of ?pure …? corruption in central banks. Only a few studies address corruption and similar, but not necessarily criminal, behavior of central … bank employees and governors, even though corruption in the central bank is obviously possible. By the very nature of their …
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contracts induced by means of bribery are analyzed. It is stated that both nullity and voidability run counter to effective anti-corruption … in and that put their clout for the fight against corruption in question. Against this background, three novel anti-corruption …. What is more, legislation can also take advantage of these chinks to fight corruption effectively.In Section II it is …
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) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …
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