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Do donor-funded politicians benefit their donors disproportionately? If so, how? This paper examines the impact of electing donor-funded politicians using a novel dataset that uniquely links campaign donors with recipients of public contracts during mayors' incumbency period in Colombia. Using a...
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We use survey responses by firms to examine the firm-level determinants and effects of political influence, their perception of corruption and prevalence of bribe paying. We find that: (a) measures of political influence and corruption/bribes are uncorrelated at the firm level; (b) firms that...
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We use survey responses by firms to examine the firm-level determinants and effects of political influence, their perception of corruption and prevalence of bribe paying. We find that: (a) measures of political influence and corruption/bribes are uncorrelated at the firm level; (b) firms that...
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NGO’s work is transparent. In this situation, regulation failure may be consequent upon discourse failure. We present …
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In this article, we analyse the determinants of Regulatory Quality-RQ for 193 countries in the period 2011-2020. We use a database from ESG-Environment Social Governance of the World Bank. We apply OLS, Panel Data with Fixed Effects and Panel Data with Random Effects. We found that the variables...
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After the global financial crisis, systemic risk regulation has taken center stage. Many consider hedge funds a … hedge funds for a case study of emerging transnational regulation. After an introduction to hedge funds and the reasons for … self-regulation, including such induced by the government, regulatory competition between government regulators, and …
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Since the end of the Cold War, while democracy has spread among many countries, the costs of funding political campaigns are also increasing rapidly, leading to growing reliance on funding from private sources. This increasing reliance on private money appears to be associated with greater...
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This article argues that a democracy's regulations governing the disclosure of campaign and political finance depend on the country's electoral system. Specifically, the likelihood that disclosure regulations for competitors in legislative elections extend to individual candidates (and not...
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