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In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household consumption increases the bribery...
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Standard models of fiscal federalism suggest many benefits of decentralization in developing economies, and there has been a recent push toward decentralization around the world. However, developing countries presently still have less decentralization, particularly on the revenue side, than both...
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We provide a theoretical framework for understanding when an official angles for a bribe, when a client pays, and the payoffs to the client’s decision. We test this frame work using a new data set on bribery of Peruvian public officials by households. The theory predicts that bribery is more...
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strengthen this particular accountability mechanism nor to play an independent rold in raising RICE scores: we could find no …
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reduce corruption. Overall, the judiciary and the police are by far the most corrupt institutions. …
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This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the resulting inequality as crony bias in the political...
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unbundles corruption to measure different types of corrupt transactions and provide detailed information on the characteristics … and performance of firms, we find that: i) corruption reduces FDI inflows and attracts lower quality investment in terms … kickbacks, while paying a lower overall bribe burden than domestic firms; iii) FDI firms undertake those forms of corruption …
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corruption, with little attention paid to the role played by firms. Consequently, the links between corporate governance and … Performance Survey (BEEPS) across 20 transition economies, providing an assessment of governance and corruption from the … survey design permits an in-depth empirical analysis of governance and corruption, unbundling governance into its component …
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We provide a theoretical framework for understanding when an official angles for a bribe, when a client pays, and the payoffs to the client's decision. We test this framework using a new data set on bribery of Peruvian public officials by households. The theory predicts that bribery is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114227
In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household consumption increases the bribery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114349