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Institutions and Forest Management: A Case Study from Swat, Pakistan

Pellegrini, Lorenzo; Kruseman, Gideon - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

Deforestation in the North western part of Pakistan is a long standing problem. The Forestry Department, as formal managers of the forest resources, has been undergoing a long reform process aimed at improving its performance. This reform process has not resulted in less deforestation. From the...

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Biofuels production versus forestry in the presence of lobbies and technological change

Hammes, Johanna Jussila - Transportekonomi, Väg- och Transportforskninginstitut (VTI) - 2009

We study the political determination of a hypothetical land tax, which internalises a negative environmental externality from biofuels. The tax allocates land from biofuels towards forestry. Lobbying affects the tax rate, so that the sector with the lower elasticity of land demand determines the...

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Elite capture of foreign aid : evidence from offshore bank accounts

Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Johannesen, Niels; Rijkers, Bob - 2020

Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management, but not in other financial centers. The estimates are...

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Delegation and rewards

Vetter, Stefan Wilhelm - 2012 - This version: 29 March 2012

We study experimentally whether anti-corruption policies with a focus on bribery might be insufficient to uncover more … between a decision-maker and a lobbying party serves as a legal substitute for corruption. Due to the obvious lack of field …

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Delegation and rewards

Vetter, Stefan - 2012

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Do customs trade facilitation programmes help reduce customs-related corruption?

Michael, Bryane; Ferguson, Frank; Karimov, Alisher - 2012

Customs-related corruption costs World Customs Organisation (WCO) members at least $2 billion in customs revenue each … only help reduce corruption and improve efficiency - in a large number of customs agencies -- if the customs agency …'s director undertakes a big-bang approach to reform. We also find support for the corruption clubs theory - that customs agencies …

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Clean money in a dirty system : relationship networks and land rezoning in Queensland

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - 2015

We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...

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Law enforcement, municipal budgets and spillover effects : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Italy

Galletta, Sergio - 2016

enforcement against corruption and organized crime in local governments. Specifically, I take advantage of an Italian law that …

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Social capital and crises with an application to Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2015

Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...

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Selecting less corruptible bureaucrats

Hu, Audrey Xianhua; Zou, Liang - 2007

A government officials' propensity to corruption, or corruptibility, can be affected by his intertemporal preference …

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