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Using panel data from the International Country Risk Guide corruption index, institutional quality and political … empirical relationship between corruption and economic growth. Empirical literature has shown a linear relationship between … corruption and economic growth but hasn’t dif ferentiated between growthenhancing and growth-reducing levels of corruption. An …
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During Egypt's Arab Spring, unprecedented popular mobilization and protests brought down Hosni Mubarak's government and ushered in an era of competition between three groups: elites associated with Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP), the military, and the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood....
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In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or in-formational effects, small gifts strongly...
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pronounced. We study consequences of blog postings of a popular Russian anti-corruption blogger and shareholder activist Alexei … postings about corruption in state-controlled companies have a negative causal impact on stock performance of these companies. …
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This paper develops a new insight enabling the empirical study of media capture: minority shareholders of newspapers and readers face similar risks. Both are adversely affected when corrupt insiders use the newspaper for personal profit and receive invisible revenues. This means that relevant...
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Does information about rampant political corruption increase electoral participation and the support for challenger … copious corruption not only decreases incumbent support in local elections in Mexico, but also decreases voter turnout …
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Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world's most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal forest extraction in the tropics suggests that understanding the incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce...
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Government corruption is more prevalent in poor countries than in rich countries. This paper uses cross …-industry heterogeneity in growth rates within Vietnam to test empirically whether growth leads to lower corruption. We find that it does. We … results suggest that as poor countries grow, corruption could subside …
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Corruption is hidden action which distorts allocations of resources away from competitive outcomes. Hence the detection …. In recent years the sport of cricket, which records a huge volume of statistics, has been beset by a number of corruption … whether corruption manifests itself in recorded out comes. We nd that corruption does aect a number of observed outcomes in …
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A new line of theoretical and empirical literature emphasizes the pivotal role of fair institutions for growth.We present a model, a laboratory experiment, and a simple cross-country regression supporting this view.We model an economy with an unequal distribution of property rights, in which...
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