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The heterogeneous growth effects of the business environment : firm-level evidence for a global sample of cities

Reyes, José-Daniel; Roberts, Mark; Xu, Lixin Colin - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 1 (2021) 1, pp. 15-28

Using firm-level data covering 709 cities in 128 countries, we examine the role of a comprehensive list of business and institutional environment variables at the sub-national level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. We find basic protection (with corruption as an element),...

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Public Sector Pay and Corruption : Measuring Bribery from Micro Data

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2006

This study provides the first systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household …-reported compensation in the public sector. Using the conditions of labor market equilibrium, we develop an aggregate measure of bribery and … find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460 mln and 580 mln U.S. dollars (0 …

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Public Sector Pay and Corruption : Measuring Bribery from Micro Data

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2006

This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings …-reported compensation in the public sector. Using the conditions of labor market equilibrium, we develop an aggregate measure of bribery and … find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460 mln and 580 mln U.S. dollars (0 …

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Tax Revenue in Sub-Saharan Africa : Effects of Economic Policies and Corruption

Ghura, Dhaneshwar - 2006

An analysis of data for 39 sub-Saharan African countries during 1985-96 indicates that the variations in tax revenue-GDP ratios within this group are influenced by economic policies and the level of corruption. Namely, these ratios rise with declining inflation, implementation of structural...

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Caught with the Hand in the Cookie Jar : Firm Growth and Labor Reallocation after Exposure of Corrupt Practices

Lagaras, Spyridon - 2017

Corrupt practices in the assignment of government contracts are largely diffused and can generate misallocation of resources across firms. We study how disclosure of such practices affects firm growth and labor reallocation. We exploit exogenous variation in the exposure of illegally favored...

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The Voracity and Scarcity Effects of Export Shocks on Firm Bribery

Cariolle, Joel - 2019

by testing the voracity and scarcity effects of aggregate export shocks on firm bribery. Exploiting a sample of 24 … increase bribery when institutions are weak, highlighting the risk of corruption in unstable environments …

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Knowledge-Based Economic Development : Mass Media and the Weightless Economy

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - 2008

This paper examines the impact of mass media and information and communications technologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures on economic development. The results suggest that both mass media and ICT penetration are negatively associated with corruption. This result holds across both the...

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Corruption, economic growth and the informal sector : empirical evidence from developing countries

Ngouhouo, Ibrahim; Njoya, Loudi; Asongu, Simplice - 2022

The main objective of this paper is to contribute to in-depth literature on the relationship between growth and the informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic performance (increase or decrease of the informal sector)...

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The role of economic prosperity on informality in Africa : evidence of corruption thresholds from PSTR

Njoya, Loudi; Ngouhouo, Ibrahim; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2022

This paper is interested in explaining the causes of the simultaneous evolution between economic growth and informality. Using a large annual panel of African countries with a time series of 25 years, ours results show that when the corruption rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577,...

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Buying Our Way Out of Corruption : Performance-Based Incentive Bonuses for Developing Country Politicians and Bureaucrats

Skladany, Martin - 2016

This article argues for the establishment of performance-based financial incentive programs in developing countries that would pay politicians and high-level bureaucrats substantial bonuses (ten to twenty times or more of their official yearly salaries) to reduce corruption within their...

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