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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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¿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 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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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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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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Risk attitudes and informal employment in a developing economy
Bennett, John; Gould, Matthew; Rablen, Matthew D. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-17
We model an urban labour market in a developing economy, incorporating workers’ risk attitudes. Trade-offs between risk aversion and ability determine worker allocation across formal and informal wage employment, and voluntary and involuntary self employment. Greater risk of informal wage...
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Alternative Wohlstandsmessung : neun Indikatoren können das Bruttoinlandsprodukt ergänzen und relativieren
Giesselmann, Marco; Hilmer, Richard; Siegel, Nico A.; … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 9, pp. 3-12
Zahlreiche Menschen, Politiker und Wissenschaftler in Deutschland glauben, dass das "Bruttoinlandsprodukt", kurz BIP, als Maßzahl für gesellschaftlichen Wohlstand überholt sei. Deshalb hat der Deutsche Bundestag Ende 2010 eine Studien-Kommission ("Enquete- Kommission") eingerichtet, die den...
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Volksvertreter sind risikofreudiger als das Volk
Heß, Moritz; Scheve, Christian von; Schupp, Jürgen; … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 10, pp. 17-21
In der Politik sind wie im Geschäftsleben oft riskante beziehungsweise gefährliche Entscheidungen zu treffen, bei denen die Ergebnisse nur schwer oder gar nicht prognostizierbar sind. Da Menschen in ihren Einstellungen gegenüber Risiken und Gefahren variieren, ist es vernünftig, dass in...
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