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The Effect of Organized Crime on Public Funds
Barone, Guglielmo - 2013
the dependent variable. Organized crime is also found to cause episodes of corruption in the public administration. A …
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Organized crime and business subsidies : where does the money go?
Barone, Guglielmo; Narciso, Gaia - In: Journal of urban economics 86 (2015), pp. 98-110
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The Economic Costs of Organized Crime : Evidence from Southern Italy
Pinotti, Paolo - 2012
I examine the post-war economic development of two regions in southern Italy exposed to mafia activity after the 1970s and apply synthetic control methods to estimate their counterfactual economic performance in the absence of organized crime. The synthetic control is a weighted average of other...
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Bribery : Who Pays, Who Refuses, What are the Payoffs?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2006
We provide a theoretical framework for understanding when an official angles for a bribe, when a client pays, and the 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...
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Why are Some Public Officials More Corrupt than Others?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2006
reduce corruption. Overall, the judiciary and the police are by far the most corrupt institutions …
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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda
Hunt, Jennifer - 2007
In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household consumption increases the bribery...
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Governance Matters
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Zoido, Pablo - 2004
Six new aggregate measures capturing various dimensions of governance provide new evidence of a strong causal relationship from better governance to better development outcomes. In a cross-section of more than 150 countries, Kaufmann, Kraay, and Zoido-Lobaton provide new empirical evidence of a...
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Seize the State, Seize the Day : State Capture, Corruption and Influence in Transition
Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - 2004
unbundling of corruption into meaningful and measurable components. They contrast state capture (firms shaping and affecting … without recourse to payments) and with administrative corruption ("petty" forms of bribery in connection with the … empirical measurement utilizing the BEEPS data. State capture, influence, and administrative corruption are all shown to have …
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Governance Matters VI : Governance Indicators for 1996-2006
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2007
Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. This …
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Myths and Realities of Governance and Corruption
Kaufmann, Daniel - 2006
A number of popular notions and outright myths on governance and corruption are addressed in this chapter. We … distinguish clearly between governance and anti-corruption, while probing the links between both notions. In so doing we challenge … the conventional definition of corruption as being too narrow, legalistic and unduly focused on the public sector, while …
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