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We find that new states are perceived to be more corrupt even though businesses do not report more bribery in newer states. This is suggestive of an unearned, and likely high, reputational cost to being a new state. These findings hold over a number of specifications that include additional...
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We ask whether, as many seem to think, corruption worsens, and judicial accountability improves, inequality, and … investigate this empirically using data from 145 countries 1960.2014. We relate perceived corruption and de facto judicial … accountability to gross-income inequality and consumption inequality. The study shows that corruption is negatively, and that …
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We ask whether, as many seem to think, corruption worsens, and judicial accountability improves, inequality, and … investigate this empirically using data from 145 countries 1960–2014. We relate perceived corruption and de facto judicial … accountability to gross-income inequality and consumption inequality. The study shows that corruption is negatively, and that …
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Does experience of corruption and cronyism have an effect on popular attitudes towards markets and capitalists? Using … the data from the Gallup World Poll, we find broad support for the proposition that corruption and cronyism – and … where such practices are abundant. Lower levels of control of corruption, as measured by the Worldwide Governance Indicators …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … the involvement of women in society and the absence of corruption. However, once country-fixed effects are acknowledged … corruption by 2.5 index points (scale from zero to ten). Surprisingly, the link between the share of women in the labor force and …
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