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How does corruption affect public debt? : an empirical analysis

Cooray, Arusha; Schneider, Friedrich - 2013 - Revised version

This paper examines the relationship between corruption and public debt in 106 countries. Results suggest that … corruption leads to an increase in public debt. We also investigate if the effect of corruption on pblic debt is increased by … government expenditure, the shadow economy and military expenditure. We find that the effect of corruption on public debt is …

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Does Corruption Affect the Private Provision of Public Goods?

Cagala, Tobias - 2018

We present controlled experimental evidence on how corruption affects the private provision of public goods. Subjects … subjects. We compare average contributions between two conditions with the same efficiency: a corruption condition, where an … administrator can expropriate part of contributions, and a control condition without corruption. Compared to the control condition …

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Shadow economies around the world : new results for 158 countries over 1991-2015

Schneider, Friedrich; Medina, Leandro - 2017 - Revised version

This paper is a first attempt to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. Using the Multiple Indicators, Multiple Causes (MIMIC) method we apply for the first time (i) the light intensity approach instead of GDP avoiding the...

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Shadow economies around the world : new results for 158 countries over 1991-2015

Medina, Leandro; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017 - Revised version

Using the MIMIC method, this paper is a first attempt to estimate the size of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. In addition to performing a variety of robustness tests, this paper explicitly addresses endogeneity concerns to the use of GDP as cause and...

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Exploring the moderating role of financial development in environmental Kuznets curve for South Africa : fresh evidence from the novel dynamic ARDL simulations approach

Udeagha, Maxwell Chukwudi; Breitenbach, Marthinus C. - In: Financial innovation : FIN 9 (2023) 1, pp. 1-52

The extant literature has produced mixed evidence on the relationship between financial development and ecological sustainability. This work addresses this conundrum by investigating financial development's direct and indirect consequences on ecological quality utilizing the environmental...

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How do trade openness and public expenditures affect health status in OIC member countries? : an empirical analysis

Farooq, Fatima; Zulkornain Yusop; Chaudhry, Imran Sharif - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 13 (2019) 4, pp. 1041-1056

This paper investigates the impact of trade openness and public expenditures on health status in OIC member countries. Panel data of 47 OIC member countries from 1991 to 2017 is taken from the World Development Indicators (WDI). The econometric results areestimated using GMM technique to avoid...

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Fiscal policy and real exchange rate variations in India

Maitra, Biswajit; Ganguli, Dhritiman - In: Eurasian economic review : a journal in applied … 14 (2024) 3, pp. 619-640

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How do trade openness, public expenditure and institutional performance affect unemployment in OIC countries? : evidence from the DCCE approach

Liu, Zhen; Ngo, Quang Thanh; Saydaliev, Hayot Berk; He, … - In: Economic systems 46 (2022) 4, pp. 1-15

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Revisiting the role of education for agricultural productivity

Reimers, Malte; Klasen, Stephan - 2011

While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant or even surprisingly negative effect of schooling. In...

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Revisiting the role of education for agricultural productivity

Reimers, Malte; Klasen, Stephan - 2011

While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analysing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect insignificant or even surprising negative effects of schooling. In this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349170