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Privatization, competition and corruption: How characteristics of bribe takers and payers after bribe payments to utilities

Clarke, George R. G.; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2002

Many recent studies have looked at the macroeconomic, cultural and institutional determinants of corruption at the cross-national level. This study complements these existing cross-country studies by focusing on firm-level evidence of microeconomic factors affecting bribes paid in a single...

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Bank Ownership and Performance

Micco, Alejandro; Panizza, Ugo; Yañez, Mónica - 2004

This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for … ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations for developing and industrial countries. It is found that, while … ownership is strongly correlated with performance in developing countries, that ownership is not correlated with performance in …

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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001

describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … significant effect of private ownership share on the level and growth of labor productivity, the estimates ranging from 13 to 32 …

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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development : Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2005

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...

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