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Edwards, Chris - 2009

The federal government is headed toward a financial crisis as a result of chronic overspending, large deficits, and huge future cost increases in Social Security and Medicare. Social Security and Medicare would be big fiscal challenges even if the rest of the government were lean and efficient,...

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Impact of disaggregated public expenditure on inflation rate in selected African countries : a panel cointegration analysis

Onuoha, Favour Chidinma; Okorie, George - In: West African journal of monetary and economic integration 20 (2020) 1A, pp. 1-21

The study examined the long run association between disaggregated public expenditure and inflation rate in selected African countries with data spanning 1990-2019. The study employed a panel cointegration technique and estimated the cointegrating relationship using the Fully Modified OLS...

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Government spending in Spain from a European perspective

Alloza, Mario; Brunet, Julia; Forte-Campos, Victor; … - 2023

This document presents a detailed analysis of the structure of general government spending in Spain and its recent evolution in comparison to the rest of the European countries. The weight of Spanish public spending is similar to that of neighbouring countries, although below the average for a...

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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act & Government Contractors : Compliance Trends & Collateral Consequences

Tillipman, Jessica - 2012

As Government contractors expand their business overseas, they expose themselves to the risk of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the high sanctions that accompany those violations. Given the nature of a Government contractor's business, they are naturally at greater risk of...

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Combating Corruption in Public Procurement - A Case Study of the Indian Railways

Nag, Bodhibrata - 2013

The risks of corruption in public sector procurements are higher due to larger sizes of contracts involved. Procurement … incorporate most of the methods for preventing corruption. However public perception of public procurement is that corruption is … corruption, (b) the deficiencies of the current procurement processes and control mechanisms, (c) recommending appropriate …

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Renegotiations and Corruption in Infrastructure : The Odebrecht Case

Campos, Nicolas; Engel, Eduardo; Fischer, Ronald D.; … - 2020

.Judicial documents and press reports on the Odebrecht case reveal detailed information on the work- ings of corruption in the …

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Risk attitude, beliefs, and information in a corruption game: An experimental analysis

Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Haller, Sven; Krüger, Tyll; … - 2012

For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs … reduces corruption. …

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Do Clean Hands ensure healthy growth? Theory and practice in the battle against corruption

Coppier, Raffaella; Costantini, Mauro; Piga, Gustavo - 2009

This paper analyzes the existing relationship between economic growth and the monitoring of corruption and examines the … possible outcome of the implementation of a State reform in order to weed out corruption. Growth is always higher when … monitoring is high and therefore corruption eradicated. But growth declines when monitoring against corruption is not too high …

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How Much Do Perceptions of Corruption Really Tell Us?

Weber Abramo, Claudio - 2007

Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer 2004 survey show … that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among the … general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves. However …

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How Much Do Perceptions of Corruption Really Tell Us?

Weber Abramo, Claudio - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-3, pp. 1-56

Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey … show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among … the general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295301