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bribe, which reduces corruption. Appropriate networks are more easily established in small towns, by long-term residents of … battle against corruption faced by policy-makers in rapidly urbanizing countries with high fertility. I show that victims of …
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The paper studies the impact of corruption threat in procurement an dpublic purchases. It explores the consequences of …
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In fiscal federal systems, local public works that generate spillovers are often financed by transfers from higher levels of government. In this article, we consider a governmental hierarchy composed by a Federal and a Local Government. The former delegates to the latter the task of finding a...
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We provide a cultural explanation to the phenomenon of corruption in the framework of an overlapping generations model … corruption. …
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government effectiveness; regulatory quality and rule of law positively correlate with control of corruption. The paper concludes …
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In recent years the topic of corruption has attracted a great deal of attention. However, there is still a lack of … empirical evidence about the determinants of corruption at the micro level. Therefore we explore in detail the impact of … political interest using three different proxies. Furthermore, investigation of the effects of political interest on corruption …
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In recent years the topic of corruption has attracted a great deal of attention. However, there is still a lack of … substantial empirical evidence about the determinants of corruption. This empirical study analyses a cross-section of individuals … using the World Values Survey wave III (1995-1997), investigating the justifiability of corruption. The major aim in the …
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contributing to this problem: fiscal corruption and evasion through illegal transactions. This note surveys some of this recent …
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Corruption opportunities arise when a principal delegates enforcement or audit authority to a supervisor. The …. Corruption imposes a constraint on governance and appears therefore to be harmful for the principal. We show that this need not … be the case. In our model, the prospect of corruption can make the principal better off. The reason is that the collusion …
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