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The Effects of Corruption on Growth, Investment, and Government Expenditure

Mauro, Paolo - 2006

This paper discusses the possible causes and consequences of corruption. It provides a synthetic review of recent … studies that analyze this phenomenon empirically. In addition, it presents further results on the effects of corruption on … growth and investment, and new cross-country evidence on the link between corruption and the composition of government …

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Models of Military Expenditure and Growth : A Critical Review

Dunne, John Paul - 2009

This paper reviews some of the theoretical and econometric issues involved in estimating growth models that include military spending. While the mainstream growth literature has not found military expenditure to be a significant determinant of growth, much of the defence economics literature has...

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Size of the Military Sector and Economic Growth : A Panel Data Analysis of Africa and Latin America

Stroup, Michael D.; Heckelman, Jac C. - 2014

We estimate the influence of defense spending and military labor use on economic growth in African and Latin American countries. Our model integrates disparate implications from the defense economics literature into a Barro-style model of economic growth that controls for political and economic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070945

SAM Multipliers of Growth and Distribution for an Advanced Economy

Cohen, S. I. - 2016

The paper demonstrates abilities of the SAM to investigate issues relevant for an advanced economy. i.e. The Netherlands. It studies SAM multipliers for an initial year, examines how they change over later years, and identifies segments that were gainers and losers over ten years. Available data...

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Should Governments Tax the Rich and Subsidize the Poor? An Empirical Study of Opinion in 60 Countries

McGee, Robert W. - 2016

The present study reports the findings of a survey conducted by the World Values Survey scientists in 60 countries on the question of whether governments should tax the rich and subsidize the poor. A 10-point Likert Scale was used to determine the extent of agreement or disagreement with the...

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Should Governments Tax the Rich and Subsidize the Poor? An Empirical Study of South Korean Opinion

McGee, Robert W.; Yoon, Yeomin - 2018

One question in the most recent World Values Survey asked whether it is an essential characteristic of democratic governments to tax the rich and subsidize the poor. The present study reports the findings of the survey conducted in South Korea. The overall response and relative ranking are...

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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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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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Selecting less corruptible bureaucrats

Hu, Audrey Xianhua; Zou, Liang - 2007

A government officials' propensity to corruption, or corruptibility, can be affected by his intertemporal preference …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373824

Petty corruption and citizen feedback

Angelucci, Charles; Russo, Antonio - 2015

Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343756

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