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. Corruption is more harmful for female-run firms in the areas of the world that have more gender inequality overall …The idea that there are gendered differences in corruption in the political arena is common. Two explanations for these …-run businesses engage in corruption differently than men. In the aggregate, we find a potentially puzzling result: female …
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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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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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Up until the 1980s, studies on corruption were dominated by disciplines of public administration and sociology. In the … International Agency, corruption, which has a negative impact on most macroeconomic indicators, is “the abuse of entrusted power for … private gain”. Even though the disruption of corruption causing weak growth and investment rates has long been examined, there …
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