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The tragedy of corruption
Chen, Yefeng; Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016
We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the …' corruptibility but is not sufficient to eliminate the Tragedy of corruption that leads both firms and officials to earn less than in … the absence of corruption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528171
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Corrupt local government as resource farmers : the helping hand and the grabbing hand
Dalgic, Engin; Long, Ngo Van - 2004
We study the role of tax share and transparency of governance on growth and stagnation. A local government maximizes its private benefits using two activities. The first one consists of providing local public goods that help local firms to increase profits, thus enlarging tax revenue. The second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450277
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Public goods provision with rent-extracting administrators
Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Grimm, Veronika; … - 2017
This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...
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Inequality, institutions and cooperation
Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020
relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305896
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Inequality, institutions, and cooperation
Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020
relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301914
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Keep it real : measuring real inequality using survey data from developing countries
Beck, Ulrik - 2015
This paper investigates how two effects drive wedges between nominal and real inequality estimates. The effects are caused by (i) differences in the composition of consumption over the income distribution coupled with differential inflation of consumption items; and (ii) quantity discounting...
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Welfare spending and quality of growth in developing countries : a note on evidence from hopefuls, contenders and best performers
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
The transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has shifted the policy debate from growth to 'quality of growth' (QG). We explore a new dataset on QG by the IMF and classify 93 developing countries for the period 1990-2011 in terms of Hopefuls,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523138
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How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?
Apergēs, Nikolaos; Cooray, Arusha - 2019
The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 countries and uses a number of panel data methods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012340
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Comparative determinants of quality of growth in developing countries
Asongu, Simplice; Asongu, Ndemaze - 2017
This study explores a new dataset in order to present the comparative determinants of growth quality in 93 developing countries for the period 1990-2011. We employ both cross-sectional and panel estimation techniques with contemporary and non-contemporary specifications. The determinants are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638886
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Growth, employment, poverty and inequality in Tanzania
Kinyondo, Abel; Pelizzo, Riccardo - 2018
This paper shows that in Tanzania, economic growth contributes to job creation and employment opportunities, however, it does very little to curb income inequality. Using official data from various local sources compiled by the National Bureau of Statistics, the paper provides an explanation as...
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