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Helping hand or grabbing hand? State bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - 2009
effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find … is driven by the impact of bureaucracy on the post-privatization business environment, with better institutional support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269020
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Helping hand or grabbing hand? State bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - 2008
privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity … this effect is driven by the impact of bureaucracy on the post-privatization business environment, with better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288041
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Helping hand or grabbing hand? : State bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor);  … - 2008
privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity … this effect is driven by the impact of bureaucracy on the post-privatization business environment, with better … institutional support and less corruption when bureaucracies are large. -- privatization ; bureaucracy ; economic reform ; Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809958
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Helping hand or grabbing hand? : state bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - 2009
effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find … is driven by the impact of bureaucracy on the post-privatization business environment, with better institutional support … and less corruption when bureaucracies are large. -- Privatization ; bureaucracy ; economic reform ; Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003800902
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The importance of clarity : impacts of Colombia's Lenguaje Claro Program on reducing administrative burdens
Cuesta, Ana; Reyes, Angela; Roseth, Benjamin - 2019
Citizens confront multiple challenges when attempting to access public services. This article focuses on an aspect yet unaddressed by existing literature on administrative burdens: the complexity of the written language used by government agencies in Latin America. It presents an impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008401
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Screen Now, Save Later? The Trade-Off between Administrative Ordeals and Fraud
Aman-Rana, Shan; Gingerich, Daniel; Sukhtankar, Sandip - 2022
Screening requirements are common features of fraud and corruption mitigation efforts around the world. Yet imposing these requirements involves trade-offs between higher administrative costs, delayed benefits, and exclusion of genuine beneficiaries on one hand and lower fraud on the other. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030148
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Screen Now, Save Later? The Trade-Off between Administrative Ordeals and Fraud
Aman-Rana, Shan; Gingerich, Daniel W.; Sukhtankar, Sandip - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Screening requirements are common features of fraud and corruption mitigation efforts around the world. Yet imposing these requirements involves trade-offs between higher administrative costs, delayed benefits, and exclusion of genuine beneficiaries on one hand and lower fraud on the other. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322752
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The distributional effects of fiscal consolidation in nine EU countries
Avram, Silvia; Figari, Francesco; Leventi, Chrysa; … - 2013
We compare the distributional effects of policy changes presented as fiscal consolidation measures in nine EU countries that experienced large budget deficits following the financial crisis of the late 2000s and subsequent economic downturn, using the EU microsimulation model EUROMOD. The nine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009704281
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The impact of inflation on income tax and social insurance contributions in Europe
Immervoll, Herwig - 2000
Inflation can alter the characteristics of tax- and contribution systems in numerous ways. This paper demonstrates how inflation alters the distributive properties of nominally defined tax systems and looks at the impact of the tax revenues and social insurance contribution receipts generated....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238715
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Sticks or carrots? : comparing effectiveness of government shadow economy policies in Russia
Kluge, Janis; Libman, Alexander - 2017
Which incentives have the strongest impact on the size of the shadow economy? Is it about government's pressure against entrepreneurs operating in this sector, or is it about the benefits of legality? The goal of this paper is to explicitly contrast the role of sticks (court repressiveness) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011620553