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Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...
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corruption and decrease the large expenses associated with today's democratic election campaigns. Random mechanisms can be …
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In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market … institutions that do not punish political corruption result in political connectedness of firms that in turn has a negative effect …
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Previous studies have proposed a link between corruption and wages in the public sector. The present paper investigates …
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This paper analyzes the impact of migration on destination-country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive … explore different channels through which corruption might migrate. Independent of the econometric methodology applied, we … consistently find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the destination country's corruption level …
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Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to … impairing everybody's life. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and …
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resource-rich countries, the decision of host governments to expropriate these investments, and the level of corruption. Higher … production. Moreover, resource production leads to high levels of corruption. Our theoretical results are confirmed by … estimations of a simultaneous equation model for 50 resource-rich countries in which we endogenize expropriation risk, corruption …
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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether innovators perceive corruption to be systematically more … the innovation activity of the firms in the analysed countries, conditional on the fact that they consider the corruption … imply that there is a link between innovation activity of the firms, perceptions of corruption and the evaluation of …
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effect is strengthened in countries with lower level of public sector corruption and better functioning legal systems …
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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. …
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