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Are You Being Served?: Political Accountability and Quality of Government
Adsera, Alicia; Boix, Carles; Payne, Mark - 2000
This paper explores, both formally and empirically, the political accountability mechanisms that lie behind the varying levels of public corruption and of effective governance taking place across nations. The first section develops a principal-agent model in which good governance is a function...
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
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Korrupte Staatsangestellte oder korrupte Regierungen: wer schadet mehr?
Lambsdorff, Johann Graf - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 73 (2004) 2, pp. 200-211
Ein Anstieg der Korruption um einen Punkt (auf einer Skala von 0 bis 10) verringert die Produktivität um 4% und die … zwischen Korruption und mangelnder Qualität der Bürokratie, also das Problem korrupter Staatsangestellter. Entscheidend für den … Einfluss auf Nettokapitalimporte ist der Zusammenhang zwischen Korruption und fehlender rechtsstaatlicher Tradition, also das …
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Corruption, Exogenous Changes in Incentives and Deterrence
Di Vita, Giuseppe - 2006
In this article we apply and extend the model elaborated by Acemoglu and Verdier in their seminal paper (2000), to examine how the economy represented in their theoretical framework responds to an exogenous change in the agent's incentive. In particular, we focus on the consequences of a famous...
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Property rights, optimal public enforcement, and growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2011
We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an endogenous growth framework with an expanding set of product varieties. We find that a government may assure positive equilibrium growth through public employment in the enforcement...
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Corruption and the shadow economy
Choi, Jay Pil; Thum, Marcel - 2003
This paper develops a simple framework to analyze the links between corruption and the unofficial economy and their implications for the official economy. In a model of self-selection with heterogeneous entrepreneurs, we show that the entrepreneurs' option to flee to the underground economy...
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Financial liberalization and institutional development
Alzer, Markus; Dadasov, Ramin - 2012
This paper empirically analyzes the effects of de jure financial openness on institutional quality as captured by indicators on investment risk, corruption level, impartiality of judiciary system as well as the effectiveness of bureaucratic authorities. Using a panel data set of more than 110...
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The impact of tax morale and institutional quality on the shadow economy
Schneider, Friedrich; Torgler, Benno - 2007
This paper analyses how tax morale and countries’ institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294508
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Corruption and the shadow economy: An empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006
This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a crosssection of 120 countries and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294540
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Shadow economy, tax morale, governance and institutional quality: A panel analysis
Schneider, Friedrich; Torgler, Benno - 2007
This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294548