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Compliance costs, corruption and the differentiation of bureaucratic services

Seidel, André - 2015 - This version: 12.17.2015

How to fight petty day-to-day corruption is a question often debated by politicians, by the public and in the economic … literature. Early studies have noted that a simple and well-known way to fight day-to-day corruption is to create competition … in a way that eliminates corruption. This is due to a tradeoff between corruption and compliance costs. More …

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Testing an EU-candidate's place on the maps of global economic, political and social values : the case of Turkey

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2014

Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...

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Answering critical questions on mining in the Philippines

Clemente, Eligia D.; Domingo, Sonny N.; Manejar, Arvie … - 2018

To attain a perceived acceptable quality of life, the mining industry plays a crucial role as the demand for minerals and energy increases while ore quality decreases. On the other hand, the social and environmental footprints which mining companies leave behind are deemed unacceptable by the...

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Inequality, good governance and endemic corruption

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017

Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We … payments, limiting the state's economic development capability. In the face of extensive corruption, it is challenging for the … that minimizes corruption and is sensitive to the present and future needs of society. To do this it must understand what …

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Remarks on the ethical foundations of public administration

Georgescu, Stefan Dominic; Pintea, Ilie - In: Economics, management and financial markets 13 (2018) 3, pp. 263-274

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Sticks or carrots? : comparing effectiveness of government shadow economy policies in Russia

Kluge, Janis; Libman, Alexander - 2017

Which incentives have the strongest impact on the size of the shadow economy? Is it about government's pressure against entrepreneurs operating in this sector, or is it about the benefits of legality? The goal of this paper is to explicitly contrast the role of sticks (court repressiveness) and...

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