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Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …
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The current work focuses on the economics of corruption, with an emphasis on the influence of internet users and press … freedom on the perception of corruption. An analysis of crosssectional data obtained for 113 countries in 2010 was implemented … press freedom, have isolated and economically significant effects on the way corruption is perceived. In particular …
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correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy …. -- public sector ; rents ; life satisfaction ; corruption ; judicial independence …
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those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission … more than 5 percentage points. Moreover, we explore potential mechanisms through which anti-corruption efforts have …
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those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission … more than 5 percentage points. Moreover, we explore potential mechanisms through which anti-corruption efforts have …
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on this specific part of the hidden economy. -- Hidden economy ; labor market ; taxation ; corruption … corruption being prominent among them. In part 4 we set up and quantify a model to analyze the interrelationships among the … consumption and the level of corruption. We also demonstrate that the concealed consumption share plays an important role in the …
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. -- Taxation ; corruption ; labour market ; hidden economy …The paper investigates how tax rates, corruption and institutional aspects of the labour market influence the size of … corruption, as well as the establishment of a new concept and variable, the subjective tax rate. Alternative regression …
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This paper explores the feasibility to extend the Standard Cost Model (SCM) for calculating the costs of government regulation by taking all transaction costs into account which stem from the principal/agent relationship between regulatory authorities and economic entities. From that perspective...
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International organizations have encouraged national governments to switch from traditional cash-based to business-like accrual accounting, on the presumption that long-run benefits may outweigh substantial implementation and operating costs. We use a quasi-experimental setting to evaluate...
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This paper analyzes the impact of Mapa- Regalías on efficiency in the execution of public investment projects in Colombia. MapaRegalías is an online platform that displays geo-referenced information and data on royalties coming from the extractives sector. The purpose of the platform is to...
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