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Do Attitudes Towards Corruption Differ Across Cultures? Experimental Evidence from Australia, India, Indonesia and Singapore
Cameron, Lisa A.; Chaudhuri, Ananish; Erkal, Nisvan; … - 2014
This paper examines cultural differences in attitudes towards corruption by analysing individual-decision making in a … corrupt experimental environment. Attitudes towards corruption play a critical role in the persistence of corruption. Our … allow us to explore whether, in environments characterized by lower levels of corruption, there is both a lower propensity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063075
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Does Judicial Quality Shape Economic Activity? Evidence from a Judicial Reform in India
Chemin, Matthieu - 2007
This paper investigates the impact of judiciaries on firms' contracting behaviour and economic performance. In 2002, the Code of Civil Procedure Amendment Act was enacted in India to facilitate speedy disposal of civil suits. Some State High Courts had already enacted some of the amendments...
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When Criminality Begets Crime: The Role of Elected Politicians in India
Prakash, Nishith; Sahoo, Soham; Saraswat, Deepak; … - 2022
This paper estimates the causal impact of electing criminally accused politicians and their nature of criminality on crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close elections between candidates with and without criminal accusations to instrument the share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351798
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Group Lending, Joint Liability, and Social Capital : Insights from the Indian Microfinance Crisis
Haldar, Antara - 2017
This article grapples with the causes of India's microfinance crisis. By contrasting Bangladesh's highly successful Grameen model with the allegedly “universalizable” version of India's SKS Microfinance (which precipitated the crisis), trust or social capital is isolated — not just...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964743
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Beyond Entrepreneurs as Heroic Icons of Capitalist Society : A Case Study of Street Entrepreneurs in India
Williams, Colin - 2015
The starting point of this paper is the recognition that the entrepreneurship literature is dominated by a normative ideologically-driven depiction of the entrepreneur as a heroic icon and symbolic figurehead of capitalist culture. The aim of this paper is to directly and intentionally challenge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009802
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Evaluating Competing Theories of Street Entrepreneurship : Some Lessons from a Study of Street Vendors in Bangalore, India
Williams, Colin - 2015
Conventionally, street entrepreneurs were either seen as a residue from a premodern era that is gradually disappearing (modernisation theory), or an endeavour into which marginalised populations are driven out of necessity in the absence of alternative ways of securing a livelihood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009960
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Women Entrepreneurs in the Indian Informal Sector : Marginalisation Dynamics or Institutional Rational Choice?
Williams, Colin - 2015
Purpose -- Studies on women entrepreneurs either read women through a structuralist lens as marginalised populations engaged in low quality work or through a neo-liberal lens as engaged in relatively higher quality endeavour more as a rational choice. The aim of this paper is to evaluate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010303
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Evaluating Competing Explanations for Street Entrepreneurship : Some Evidence from India
Williams, Colin - 2015
Participation in street entrepreneurship is variously explained either as a residue from a pre-modern era (modernisation theory), a necessity-driven endeavour and last resort (structuralist theory), a rational economic choice (neo-liberal theory) or conducted for social or lifestyle reasons...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010313
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When criminality begets crime : the role of elected politicians in India
Prakash, Nishith; Sahoo, Soham; Saraswat, Deepak; … - 2022
This paper estimates the causal impact of electing criminally accused politicians and their nature of criminality on crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close elections between candidates with and without criminal accusations to instrument the share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187867