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We introduce bureaucratic corruption in a simple way and examine its effect on government revenue when policies change …. If corruption is low enough, revenues garnered from capturing people cheating may exceed those from choosing an audit … structure in which everyone declares their true income. We also examine a case in which corruption is endogenous. …
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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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. Although such bureaucracy intermediaries are, anecdotally, linked with corruption and welfare losses, few formal analyses exist …" corruption only. Intermediaries can thus improve access to the bureaucracy, but also strengthen incentives to create red tape - a …Intermediaries helping individuals and firms with the government bureaucracy are common in developing countries …
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This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of...
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Recent years have seen the emergence of a considerable volume of literature on governance and its role in economic and social development of a country. This paper provides a critical review of the literature. This review brings into the open a number of serious conceptual, measurement, and data...
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How do corruption and the state apparatus interact, and how are they connected to the political and economic dimensions … effect of corruption on state power. Under general assumptions about fat-tailed risk, we show that, if fiscal capacity is … corruption is maintained at such a level that no erosion of state power is tolerated. Comparative statics shows the impacts of …
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Corruption has a complex relationship with economic growth. We have explored the impact of corruption on credit risk …-performing loan (NPL) is used as a proxy for credit risk and data regarding NPL is collected from the World Bank Database. Corruption … between corruption and credit risk for the global sample. Generalized Methods of Moments regression and robustness tests …
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Few concepts have captured the imagination of the conflict and development communities in recent years as powerfully as the idea of a 'political settlement'. At its most ambitious, 'political settlements analysis' (PSA) promises to explain why conflicts occur and states collapse, the conditions...
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determinants such as: corruption, regulation and bureaucracy, quality of public and government services, detection probability …
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Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...
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