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characterize countries according to the quality of their institutions. However, no effort has been made to study how the honesty of … citizens varies across sixteen countries. This paper explores the honesty among citizens across sixteen countries and not of …, international indices that are indicative of institutional honesty are completely uncorrelated with citizens' honesty for our sample …
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Building state capacity is uniquely challenging in fragile states. We report results from a randomized evaluation of a major Afghan government initiative to increase capacity by modernizing its payroll. The reform, which required teachers to biometrically register and receive salary payments via...
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show why corruption is a problem of the state rather than the market. …
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Building state capacity is uniquely challenging in fragile states. We report results from a randomized evaluation of a major Afghan government initiative to increase capacity by modernizing its payroll. The reform, which required teachers to biometrically register and receive salary payments via...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377484
This paper makes an attempt at testing the external validity of corruption experiments by moving from the lab in a … environments the probability to accept the bribe. Finally, we identify several micro-determinants of corruption (age, religiousness …, ability). Le présent article essaie de tester la validité externe des expériences sur la corruption en quittant le laboratoire …
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with other-regarding preferences and provides a basis for analyzing honesty and corruption. …
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We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more … between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field …
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We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more … between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526172
Customs-related corruption costs World Customs Organisation (WCO) members at least $2 billion in customs revenue each … only help reduce corruption and improve efficiency - in a large number of customs agencies -- if the customs agency …'s director undertakes a big-bang approach to reform. We also find support for the corruption clubs theory - that customs agencies …
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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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