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financing increases with freedom from corruption, rule of law, quality of regulations, and decreases with court disputes. We …
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This paper demonstrates the effect of country level corruption on illicit behavior of individuals in a foreign country … States from corruption-ridden countries are more likely to be apprehended than individuals from less corrupt countries are. …
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techniques highlight the home country's social ills such as corruption, theft and homicide as key determinants. Also included in … host country. These results suggest that chronic socio-economic problems such as corruption, crimes, and poverty in the …
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This paper addresses the effects of the revolving door phenomenon on the inequality of influence among firms. It shows that firms are not equal in their capacities to benefit from state connections. We first develop a theoretical model introducing the notion of "bureaucratic capital" and showing...
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This paper, mainly methodological, aims at providing an estimation of the number of U.S. military bases and personnel worldwide. The first part proposes a periodization of the spread of U.S. military bases. The second part exposes the official statistical data disseminated by the US Department...
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This paper studies the U.S. economy from an original point of view: that of the links existing between crisis and war. The first part analyzes the workings of the current crisis, considered to be a “systemic” one. The second part places the U.S. economy at the very heart of this crisis. The...
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This paper examines mandatory occupational licensure in several professions from barbers, cosmetologists, radiologic technicians, CPAs, mid-level healthcare providers, and physicians. Mandatory licensure is cited as a mechanism for serving the public interest by assuring professionals possess...
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In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing … literature in four ways. First, instead of using corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use an … objective measure of corruption: the number of public officials convicted in a state for crimes related to corruption. Second …
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High-quality data on state-level inequality and incomes, panel data on corruption convictions, and careful attention to … institutional environment the corruptible employee’s or official’s decision to engage in corruption is affected by relative wages … of inequality, which indicate diminished prospects facing those convicted of corruption. In US states over 25 years we …
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We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In … helps explain the connection between isolated capitals and corruption. In addition, we provide some evidence that this …
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