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Decentralising the public sector: The Impact of Decentralisation on Service Delivery, Corruption, Fiscal Management and Growth in Developing and Emerging Market Economies: A Synthe...
Shah, Anwar; Thompson, Theresa; Zou, Heng-fu - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 1, pp. 10-14
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696458
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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 … 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294540
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Corruption and the shadow economy: An empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2006
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330109
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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 … 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276563
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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 … 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276652
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Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship? The impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin - 2007
that corruption is beneficial in highly regulated economies. At the maximum level of regulation among our sample of …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277758
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The conditions of socioeconomic development exploring the legitimacy of social norms, trust, and corruption in Chile and Argentina
Míguez, Daniel; Dewey, Matías - 2018
with several intervening factors, such as levels of respect for social norms, interpersonal trust, degrees of confidence in … public institutions, or incidence of corruption in governmental bodies. The paper contributes to this body of scholarship by … of the law, higher levels of trust in public institutions, lower perceived levels of corruption, and greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932116
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Trust and Bribery : The Role of the Quid Pro Quo and the Link with Crime
Hunt, Jennifer - 2004
bribe, which reduces corruption. Appropriate networks are more easily established in small towns, by long-term residents of … battle against corruption faced by policy-makers in rapidly urbanizing countries with high fertility. I show that victims of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261925
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Neutral versus Loaded Instructions in a Bribery Experiment
Abbink, Klaus; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike - 2002
This paper contributes to the ongoing methodological debate on context-free versus in-context presentation of experimental tasks. We report an experiment using the paradigm of a bribery experiment. In one condition, the task is presented in a typical bribery context, the other one uses abstract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263068
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Efficient and inefficient welfare states
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - 2011
This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274587