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Attitudes Toward Bribery in Australia : A Demographic Study

Hernandez, Teresa - 2014

This study examined Australian attitudes toward bribe taking, using the data from the World Values survey. Nineteen demographic variables (gender, age, marital status, etc.) were also examined to determine whether certain responses differed by category. The findings indicate that many of the...

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The Ethical Perceptions of Bribe Taking in Four Muslim Countries

Hernandez, Teresa - 2014

This study examined attitudes toward bribe taking in four Muslim countries – Indonesia, Egypt, Iran and Iraq. Eighteen demographic variables were also examined (gender, age, marital status, etc.), and it was found that most mean scores between groups were significant

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The Ethics of Accepting a Bribe : An Empirical Study of Opinion in the USA, Brazil, Germany and China

Hernandez, Teresa - 2014

This paper presents the results of an empirical study of attitudes toward bribe taking in the largest economies on four continents – the USA, Brazil, Germany and China. The authors use the Human Beliefs and Values Survey data to examine several demographic variables, including gender, age,...

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Corruption, Rule of Law, and Economic Efficiency : Selected Anecdotic Evidence of Bureaucratic Corruption from the Czech and Slovak Republics

Wawrosz, Petr - 2014

Can corruption improve economic efficiency? Scholars making economic policy recommendations to resolve corruption … accepting corruption operate, as well as explaining the importance of the agents for the survival of their environment. The rent … from the early period of transition in the Czech and Slovak Republics to support the implication that the corruption …

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Do Local Constraints on Corporate Political Activities Really Bite? Evidence from Local Adoptions of the American Anti-Corruption Act

Kim, Jeong-Bon; Mensah, Albert - 2021

We examine the consequences of local laws modeled on the American Anti-Corruption Act (“AACA”), which aims to constrain …

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Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement : Evidence from Italian Government Contracting

Decarolis, Francesco; Fisman, Raymond J.; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2021

for private gain. We study the relationship between discretion and corruption in Italian government procurement auctions …, using a confidential database of firms and procurement officials investigated for corruption by Italian enforcement … associated with corruption only when conducted with fewer than the formally required number of bidders or employing discretionary …

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Persuading Voters to Punish Corrupt Vote Buyers : Experimental Evidence from a Large-Scale Radio Campaign in India

Schechter, Laura; Vasudevan, Srinivasan - 2021

data shows that the campaign increased the salience of government corruption as an election issue and decreased voting for …

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A Silent Corrupting Force? Criminal Sentencing and the Threat of Recall

Gordon, Sanford C. - 2020

39 U.S. states authorize recall elections, but the incentives they create are not well understood. We examine how changes in the perceived threat of recall alter the behavior of one set of officials: judges. In 2016, outrage over the sentence imposed on a Stanford athlete following his sexual...

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Epidemic corruption : a bio-economic homology

Hathroubi, Salem - 2013

This paper aims to study corruption as an epidemic phenomenon using the epidemic diffusion model of Kermack and Mc …-Kendrick (1927). We seek to determine the dynamics of corruption and its impact on the composition of the population at a given time …. We determine a threshold epidemiological corruption based on the approximation of the honest population. -- Corruption …

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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tame bureaucracy …

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