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Money talks to autocrats, bullets whistle to democrats : political influence under different regimes
Choon, Thea How; Marcolongo, Giovanna; Pinotti, Paolo - 2024
dynamics of bribes and violence around elections in democracies and autocracies using a novel measure of corruption based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015057721
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Electoral systems and economic growth : what is the importance of the proportionality degree?
Alfano, M. Rosaria; Baraldi, A. Laura - 2014
Previous empirical studies analysing the effect of electoral systems on growth lack unanimous answers as they miss-specify mixed systems in the empirical setting, that is, they neglect to consider the proportionality degree of mixed electoral systems. This work supplies the missing answers by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527213
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The effect of the proportionality degree of electoral systems on corruption
Alfano, Maria Rosaria; Baraldi, Anna Laura; Papagni, Erasmo - 2015
This work provides a new way to analyze of the effect of electoral system and corruption: through its degree of …. But it is beneficial only up to certain proportionality degrees, after which the corresponding level of corruption begins …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527252
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Corruption and economic growth : does the size of the government matter?
Afonso, António; Rodrigues, Eduardo de Sá Fortes Leitão - 2021
Corruption is often a source of contentious debate, covering different areas of knowledge, such as philosophy and … sociology. In this paper we assess the effects of corruption on economic activity and highlight the relevance of the size of the … 2019. We find an adverse effect of corruption on the level and growth of GDP per capita, but that large governments benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504814
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When do countries implement structural reforms?
Silva, António Dias da; Givone, Audrey; Sondermann, David - 2017
The objective of this paper is to investigate which factors ] macroeconomic, policy ]related or institutional ] foster the implementation of structural reforms. To this objective, we look at episodes of structural reforms over three decades across 40 OECD and EU countries and link them to such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662947
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Corruption and political interest: Empirical evidence at the micro level
Torgler, Benno; Dong, Bin - 2008
The topic of corruption has recently attracted a great deal of attention, yet there is still a lack of micro level … empirical evidence regarding the determinants of corruption. Furthermore, the present literature has not investigated the … effects of political interest on corruption despite the interesting potential of this link. We address these deficiencies by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270948
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The dynamic effects of information on political corruption : theory and evidence from Puerto Rico
Bobonis, Gustavo J.; Cámara Fuertes, Luis Raúl; … - 2012
Does the disclosure of information about corrupt activities induce a sustained reduction in corruption? We use … longitudinal data on audits of municipal governments in Puerto Rico to answer this question. We find that corruption is lower in … municipalities audited before an election. However, these municipalities do not exhibit decreased levels of corruption in subsequent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009707881
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Fair salaries and the moral costs of corruption
Abbink, Klaus - 2000
In a bribery experiment, we test the hypothesis that distributive fairness considerations make relatively well-paid public officials less corruptible. Corrupt decisions impose damages to workers whose wage is varied in two treatments. However, there is no apparent difference in behaviour.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538846
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When Corruption Begets Corruption : Welfare Analysis and the Role of Bureaucratic Wages Under Multiple Equilibria
Dutt, Pushan - 2008
The paper presents some empirical puzzles in the relationship between bureaucratic wages and corruption levels, and … corruption. In the presence of such multiple equilibria, the relationship between bureaucratic wages and corruption is no longer … that social welfare is decreasing in the incidence of corruption, across such equilibria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012725752
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Epidemic corruption : a bio-economic homology
Hathroubi, Salem - 2013
This paper aims to study corruption as an epidemic phenomenon using the epidemic diffusion model of Kermack and Mc …-Kendrick (1927). We seek to determine the dynamics of corruption and its impact on the composition of the population at a given time …. We determine a threshold epidemiological corruption based on the approximation of the honest population. -- Corruption …
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