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Distributional Effects of Corruption When Enforcement is Biased : Theory and Evidence from Bribery in Schools in Bangladesh
Emran, M. Shahe - 2019
In many models of corruption where enforcement is unbiased and the official maximizes her income, the rich are more … likely to pay bribes for their children's education, implying that corruption reduces educational inequality. We develop … models of bribery that reflect the fact that, in developing countries, anti-corruption enforcement is not unbiased, and …
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International evidence of the Fisher Effect
Hassan, M. Kabir - In: The Indian journal of economics 74 (1993) 2, pp. 175-186
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Welfare effects of a discriminatory trading area in South Asia
Hossain, M. Manir; Vousden, Neil J. - 1996
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Reforming an institutional culture of corruption : a model of motivated agents and collective reputation
Valasek, Justin - 2015
Recent empirical studies suggest that poor public sector performance in developing nations is due in part to the difficultly of selecting workers whose motivation is aligned with the mission of the institution -- in direct contrast to evidence from developed nations, public sector workers tend...
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Reforming an institutional culture of corruption : a model of motivated agents and collective reputation
Valasek, Justin Mattias - 2015
culture of corruption. …
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Intrinsic Motivation vs. Corruption? Experimental Evidence on the Performance of Officials
Lambsdorff, Johann Graf; Grubiak, Kevin; Werner, Katharina - 2023
There are conflicting views as to whether corruption or intrinsic motivation plays a greater role in determining the … intrinsic motivation has a much higher impact on the performance of Auditors than corruption. In a treatment with punishment … that punishing officials is an unproblematic tool for fighting corruption, but its effectiveness is called into question …
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Clean money in a dirty system : relationship networks and land rezoning in Queensland
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - 2015
We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...
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Logical and probabilistic risk models for assessment and analysis of the drug addiction problem in a region
Solozhentsev, Eugene Dmitrievich; Mityagin, Sergey A. - In: International journal of risk assessment and management … 18 (2015) 1, pp. 1-20
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The weak relation between foreign direct investment and corruption : a theoretical and econometric study
Evan, Tomáš; Bolotov, Ilya - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 23 (2014) 4, pp. 474-492
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Social capital and crises with an application to Iceland
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2015
Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...
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