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Corruption and assortative matching of partners in international trade

Cooray, Arusha; Jha, Chandan Kumar; Panda, Bibhudutta - 2020

While the effects of corruption on bilateral trade have been relatively well explored, its effect on the composition of … trading partners has not been studied. In this paper, we argue that corruption in a country is likely to impose asymmetric … costs on its trading partners depending on their characteristics. As a result, as the level of corruption in a country …

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Potential economic benefits of integrity and anti-corruption policies seem large. Nevertheless, much of the existing … paper reviews OECD’s involvement in integrity and anti-corruption agenda as well as available indicators of integrity and … anti-corruption policies and outcomes. It outlines avenues for future analysis that include assessment of public …

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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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