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This paper examines the relationship between corruption and public debt in 106 countries. Results suggest that … corruption leads to an increase in public debt. We also investigate if the effect of corruption on pblic debt is increased by … government expenditure, the shadow economy and military expenditure. We find that the effect of corruption on public debt is …
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A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … to find that both Corruption Perception Index and ICRG index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291305
A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … to find that both "Corruption Perception Index" and "ICRG" index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683262
at favoring universalism may provide an effective tool in the fight against corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027347
A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … to find that both 'Corruption Perception Index' and 'ICRG' index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088661
reinforcing inequality and corruption. Despite the broad empirical evidence, there are only a few formal theoretical models on … these dynamics. Relying on a game-theoretic approach, we show how inequality and corruption are interconnected via a crime … societies feature high levels of corruption and criminal activity. Surprisingly, our results allow for the interpretation that …
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This paper examines the impact of schools on crime in urban neighborhoods. The change in the public educational landscape with the rise of charter schools in Philadelphia provides a natural experiment to examine the effects that school locations have on crime rates. In this paper, we use data on...
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Knowing whether corruption leads to higher emigration rates - and among which groups - is important because most labor … emigration is from developing to developed countries. If corruption leads highly-skilled and highlyeducated workers to leave … unemployment, lowering the returns to human capital and encouraging further emigration. Corruption also shifts public spending from …
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This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium … and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate … levels of educational attainment, however, increases at initial levels of corruption and then decreases beyond a certain …
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political support. Combining data on the public disclosure of anti-corruption efforts and individual well-being in China, we …
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