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Corruption and firm performance : evidence from Greek firms

Athanasouli, Daphne; Goujard, Antoine; Sklias, Pantelis - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 2, pp. 43-67

This article investigates the relationship between corruption and firm performance in Greece using firm level data …. Corruption is overall negatively associated with firm size and growth at the firm level. We focus on the effect of … ‘administrative corruption’, whereby firms engage in corrupt practices and bribery of government officials. We contrast the firm …

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The determinants of economic corruption : a probabilistic approach

Mohamed Abdel Rahman Salih - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 3, pp. 155-169

The determinants of corruption have been debated by economists and non-economists for the past few decades. However, no … consensus has been reached about the exact determinants of corruption and as well the direction of the effect of some the known … key variables used in corruption studies. Most previous studies exploit some sort of index as a measure of corruption. The …

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Primum vivere ... : industrial change, job destruction and the geographical distribution of unemployment

Pastore, Francesco - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-15

This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment, and, based on it, to survey the most recent literature. An overly optimistic view on the ability of the adjustment mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates...

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Banks and bank systems : international research journal

Ukraïnsʹka Akademija Bankivsʹkoï Spravy, Sumy - Sumy : Publishing Company Business Perspectives - 1.2006 -

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Development of an explicit rule of monetary policy for the economy of Ukraine

Kozmenko, Serhiy; Savchenko, Taras - In: Investment management and financial innovations 10 (2013) 1, pp. 8-19

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The role of trust in the resource allocation process of an old university

Manochin, Melina M. - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 1 (2008) 2, pp. 38-52

The issue of effective management accounting systems, and especially the resource allocation procedures, have attracted considerable interest among higher education institutions in recent years. Relevant previous research indicates that several universities adopt different approaches to the...

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Study on the collusive corruption in supervision of bank credit

Nan, Xu-guang; Kao, Meng-chun - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 1, pp. 93-103

induces serious internal collusive corruption. This article analyzes the collusive corruption between credit supervisors and … ; collusive corruption ; supervision ; principal-agent …

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¿Por qué el distanciamiento ideológico disminuye la provisión de bienes públicos? ; una explicación basada en el empleo clientelar

Gatica Arreola, Leonardo A. - In: Estudios de economía 39 (2012) 1, pp. 27-51

This paper presents a model of political competition to explore the effect that the ideological distance between two political parties has over the provision of public goods. The main result argues that the ideological distance between parties and citizens has a negative relationship with the...

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The Portuguese non-observed economy

Afonso, Oscar; Gonçalves, Nuno - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 23-57

This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of the volume of the Non-Observed Economy (NOE) in Portugal, by estimating, based on MIMIC models (multiple indicators multiple causes), its path in the period 1977-2008. On the one hand, given the influence of the tax burden, the burden of...

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Impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth of Pakistan

Saqib, Najia; Masnoon, Maryam; Rafique, Nabeel - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 1, pp. 35-45

Given contrasting evidence in the literature pertaining to the impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the host country’s economy, we take the case of Pakistan and test the said association for this nation. The data used for this study has spanned over the period of 1981 till 2010. Besides FDI,...

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