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Collusion in Corrupt System: A Game Theoretic Approach

Rajeev, Meenakshi - Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) - 2002

There is a growing literature on the issue of corruption. In particular, there is a large body of work that looks at … corruption or pilferage and considers as an example the voluntary disclosure of income scheme (VDIS) introduced by successive …

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Rent-Seeking and Gender in Local Governance

Vijayalakshmi, V. - Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) - 2005

The paper examines the relationship between corruption and gender in institutions of local government in India, using a … government will engender public policy, and also tends to reduce corruption. The evidence we examined indicates that gender is … not a significant factor in explaining levels of corruption. Although nearly 40 per cent of the elective positions in the …

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Do Higher Government Wages Reduce Corruption? Evidence Based on a Novel Dataset

Le, Van-Ha; Haan, Jakob de; Dietzenbacher, Erik - CESifo - 2013

policy and corruption. Our dataset, as derived from national household or labor surveys, is more reliable than the data on … government wages as used in previous research. When the relationship between government wages and corruption is modeled to vary … with the level of income, we find that the impact of government wages on corruption is strong at relatively low …

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THE EFFECTS OF CLAN STRUCTURES ON THE FUNCTIONING OF POST-COMMUNIST ADMINISTRATION AND JUSTICE (English version)

BOCANCEA, Antonie Cristian - In: Jurnalul de Studii Juridice 3-4 (2011) December, pp. 225-245

Post-communism is a historical age and a social phenomenon of an utmost complexity within which there take place various processes which re-compose institutions but also change the informal networks of power and modify the patterns of the collective mindset. In this context, clan structures...

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Offenses of Corruption in the New Criminal Code

MASTACAN, Olivian - In: Jurnalul de Studii Juridice 1-2 (2012) 1, pp. 197-203

The new Criminal Code make significant changes in relation to criminal offenses of corruption. First, the term public …

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Legalization of Bribe Giving when Bribe Type is Endogenous

Oak, Mandar - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 2013

In a provocative paper, Basu (2011) argues that for a class of bribes, called harassment bribes, legalization of bribe giving will reduce bribery. We examine the applicability of Basu's insight in a realistically complex environment in which the type of the bribe---harassment or...

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Communism or communists? Soviet legacies and corruption in transition economies

Libman, Alexander; Obydenkova, Anastassia - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 1, pp. 101-103

The paper investigates the influence of path dependence on corruption in Russian regions. We show that even twenty … higher corruption. …

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Gender Inequality in Social Institutions and Gendered Development Outcomes

Branisa, Boris; Klasen, Stephan; Ziegler, Maria - In: World Development 45 (2013) C, pp. 252-268

(corruption) in developing countries, even when controlling for other socioeconomic and cultural factors. Policies focusing on …

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Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation

Knack, Stephen; Smets, Lodewijk - In: World Development 44 (2013) C, pp. 63-76

This study analyzes theoretically and empirically the impact of aid fragmentation on donors’ decisions to tie their development aid to purchases from contractors based in their own countries. Building on collective action theory, it argues that a donor with a larger share of the aid market in...

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Social networks and bribery: The case of entrepreneurs in Eastern Europe

Chavis, Larry - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 1, pp. 279-293

Using a survey of new firms in Poland, Romania, and Slovakia, I explore how an entrepreneur’s social networks affect the amount paid in bribes to government officials. Lower levels of bribe payments are associated with ownership by a former manager of a state-owned enterprise (SOE), with being...

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