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Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to … impairing everybody's life. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and …
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conclude discussing the implications for the fight of more harmful forms of corruption. …
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Based on a first-hand account, this paper offers evidence on corrupt price setting and price adjustment mechanisms that were illegally employed under the Soviet planning and rationing regime in the USSR. The evidence is anecdotal, and is based on personal experience during the years 1960–1971...
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prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …
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history of past play has little effect on the level of corruption. …
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The paper investigates how efficiency of business environment and corruption (infirmal payments and state capture … corruption activities at the firm-level and firm ownership. We find somehow surprising results that private firms (domestic and … foreign owned firms that are involved in infirmal payments are likely to benefit from these corruption practices. On the other …
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employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector … find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460 mln and 580 mln U.S. dollars (0 ….9-1.2% of Ukraine's GDP in 2003). …
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The paper explores a game-theoreticmodel of petty corruption involving a sequence of entrepreneurs and a track of …
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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...
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This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy. …
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