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distinguish between market corruption (impersonal bribery), and network (or parochial) corruption which is conditional on the … market corruption. Yet, network corruption, unlike bribery, is not able to "grease the wheels" and is not associated with …-socialist countries we show, first, that the correlation between market and network corruption is weak, which implies that ignoring …
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presence of a discriminating inefficient business ecosystem, women entrepreneurs use non-market strategies such as corruption … to alter decisions in their favour. Thus, an effort to reduce corruption at an immature stage, when these societal …
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The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test … requirements are detrimental to entrepreneurship. Second, we test whether corruption reduces the negative impact of regulations on … that corruption is beneficial in highly regulated economies. At the maximum level of regulation among our sample of …
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individuals, using micro-data from the World Values Survey, covering 38 countries, to investigate trust in international …, the paper goes beyond previous studies investigating also the impact of geographic identification, corruption and … globalization. We find that a higher level of (perceived) corruption reduces the trust in the UN in developed countries, but …
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Some researchers claim that diverse populations lead to less trust. Generalized trust is a core value that leads to positive outcomes in societies
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The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test … requirements are detrimental to entrepreneurship. Second, we test whether corruption reduces the negative impact of regulations on … that corruption is beneficial in highly regulated economies. At the maximum level of regulation among our sample of …
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institutions such as corruption, which become visible in the entrepreneurial process. This research analyzes the scientific … evolution in relation to the influence of corruption and regulation in the entrepreneurial activity according to the economic … growth, under the approach of the Institutional Economic Theory. Through the analysis of the number of published works, the …
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Does corruption affect the incentives for potential entrepreneurs to start businesses? The traditional view holds that … novel approach to this question, we combine a local government corruption index and individual-level register data on start …-ups in a low-corruption setting: Sweden. We disaggregate the analysis to individual entrepreneurs, focus on corruption in …
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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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