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significantly increase bribery probability. Bribery also tends to occur more frequently in countries with faster development and … the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) was acquired from an Enterprise Survey conducted … more political rigidity. The 2007–2009 financial crisis also encouraged bribery. …
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Which incentives have the strongest impact on the size of the shadow economy? Is it about government's pressure against entrepreneurs operating in this sector, or is it about the benefits of legality? The goal of this paper is to explicitly contrast the role of sticks (court repressiveness) and...
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political support. Combining data on the public disclosure of anti-corruption efforts and individual well-being in China, we …
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Corruption is a widespread phenomenon. Nevertheless, causal evidence on the effects of corruption is still lacking. In … this paper, we assess whether and how corruption affects cooperation using a public good game experiment. Overall … intensive and the extensive margin. Second, bribery discourages initially high contributors, who gradually decrease their …
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level of development and the region. Our results highlight the need for specific remedies in the fight against corruption …This paper aims to study the determinants of corruption by examining specificities relating to the region and the level … of economic development. Starting from a cross-sectional study on 130 countries, we rely on the Bayesian Model Averaging …
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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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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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enforcement against corruption and organized crime in local governments. Specifically, I take advantage of an Italian law that …
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perceived corruption and remain on the macro-level. This study uses mirco-level data from the Afrobarometer survey wave 5 and … thus relates personal corruption experiences to tax morale. The nationally representative survey includes information about … industrialized world. Several scholars argue that corruption is one of the major obstacles to increase tax revenues but focus on …
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Previous studies have proposed a link between corruption and wages in the public sector. The present paper investigates …
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