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Following recent cross-country empirical work, research on public policy and growth has come to examine the impact of inefficient or corrupt bureaucracies. Most of this work has emphasized the interactions between bureaucracies and private markets. By contrast, this paper focuses on the...
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Corruption all over the world is an ancient, but it seems very topical too, concern in politics and in the media. This … paper investigates spatial and dynamic aspects of corruption using cellular automata. Although cellular automata are very … self organization and complex patterns (of corruption). It is shown that neither social pressure nor pure economic …
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There appears to be significant diversity in the incidence of bureaucratic corruption across countries at different … has been offered, however, on the link between corruption, government, and growth. The paper attempts to fill the void …
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We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …'s bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized, and characterize the 'corruptibility' of bureaucrats in each case. Results …
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This paper tries to explain why government bureaucracies are often associated with red tape, corruption, and lack of … and corruption …
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In developing economies firm strategy is directed more often at governments than at other competing firms. As an initial step towards modeling such interactions, this paper considers a situation where government confronts a monopoly. The latter chooses price and maximizes profit, and the former...
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interface of labor market policies and public economics. Moreover, how rent seeking and corruption within the informal segment … the gap. We identify conditions under which economic reform in the formal segment will increase the rate of corruption or … reforms may increase corruption instead of reducing it, as claimed previously. …
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