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Which incentives have the strongest impact on the size of the shadow economy? Is it about government's pressure against entrepreneurs operating in this sector, or is it about the benefits of legality? The goal of this paper is to explicitly contrast the role of sticks (court repressiveness) and...
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This paper studies the effect of poor governance quality on foreign direct investment in Russia. Using a survey of businesses across forty administrative districts, we find that higher frequency of using illegal payments and higher pressure from regulatory agencies, enforcement authorities, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862234
This paper studies the effect of poor governance quality on foreign direct investment in Russia. Using a survey of businesses across forty administrative districts, we find that higher frequency of using illegal payments and higher pressure from regulatory agencies, enforcement authorities, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011077646
Corruption in higher education is a newly emerging topic in the field of education research. Some aspects of corruption … rigorous systematic research is lacking. This paper considers corruption in higher education in the media, following … corruption across the nations pointing to how exactly they differ and why. Major findings point to the following: some forms of …
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governors' terms, we find that corruption levels, as perceived by firms operating in different regions of Russia, increases … such information may serve as an explanation for the observed pattern of perceived corruption: if a governor gradually …, corruption increases over their terms, while in regions where governors are more likely to remain in office, perceived corruption …
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This paper studies the effect of poor governance quality on foreign direct investment in Russia. Using a survey of businesses across forty administrative districts, we find that higher frequency of using illegal payments and higher pressure from regulatory agencies, enforcement authorities, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054483
We offer a novel big data approach to corruption detection and measurement by using statistical anomalies in publicly … observable allocations which corruption affects in a predictable manner. While each individual incidence of corruption remains … undetectable under the veil of secrecy, systemic corruption changes distributions of observable outcomes, and thus leaves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013305887
Russia’s direct investment of about USD 3 billon in Southern Africa over the past decade has placed before the country’s government and corporate sector two choices in the accelerating race among foreign investors into Africa. The first choice is to follow the established path of direct...
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This chapter addresses Russian environmental finance from a different angle than most of the chapters in this book. The discussion focuses on how Russian companies and Russia, generally, engage in outward investment activity within the Southern African countries.This chapter is based on the...
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Russia's direct investment of about USD 3 billon in Southern Africa over the past decade has placed before the country's government and corporate sector two choices in the accelerating race among foreign investors into Africa. The first choice is to follow the established path of direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144631