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Are there different determinants in the fight against corruption across developing countries? Why are some countries … more effective at battling corruption than others? To investigate these concerns we examine the determinants of corruption …-control throughout the conditional distribution of the fight against corruption using panel data from 46 African countries for the period …
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Why are some nations more effective at battling corruption than others? Are there different determinants in the fight … against corruption across developing nations? How do wealth effects play-out when existing corruption-control levels matter in … the corruption battle? To investigate these concerns we examine the determinants of corruption-control throughout the …
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and control of corruption in the Eurozone. The analysis covers the entire Eurozone and subgroups of countries from 2002 to … control of corruption in the Eurozone. The Great Recession has had a significant impact on the relationship between control of … corruption and income per capita, leading to a disconnection between the two variables after 2008, except for Eastern countries …
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of financial dynamic policy options in money, credit, efficiency and size on consumer prices. Soaring food prices have marked the geopolitical landscape of developing countries in the past few years. Design/methodology/approach - The...
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corruption. We argue that an anticipated oil boom may increase corruption by boosting the value attributed by an elite to being …-designed household surveys on perceived corruption in the public services/sector. These were carried out in São Tomé and Príncipe and in … corruption has occurred in São Tomé and Príncipe in recent years, ranging from 21 to 38% of the subjective scale. Consistently …
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In this paper, I analyze how corruption in one country may be affected by its neighbors' corruption. It seeks to … explain why corruption is perpetuating in large geographical areas populated by developing countries despite anticorruption … efforts made in the single country. In our empirical approach, we capture the spatial dependency by regional corruption. Three …
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over the period 2003-2014 using rich micro-data on corruption and firms. After anti-corruption audits, municipalities … administrative firm level datasets and face-to-face firm surveys, we argue that corruption mostly acts as a tax on the local economy …
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We apply the accelerator principle to measure the functional efficiency of capital markets. We estimate the elasticity of capital with respect to output using a panel of firms across 44 countries, and compare the results with existing approaches. Furthermore, we correlate our measure with...
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This paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion on the issue countering shadow activities in the context of ensuring macroeconomic stability. The main purpose of the study is to determine the acceptable level of investment transactions with signs of...
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Researchers utilizing regression discontinuity design (RDD) commonly test for running variable (RV) manipulation around a cutoff, but incorrectly assert that insignificant manipulation test statistics are evidence of negligible manipulation. I introduce simple frequentist equivalence testing...
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