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Corrupción en Italia. La muerte de un régimen
Gutiérrez Chávez, Jorge - Entelequia y Grupo Eumed.net (Universidad de Málaga)
passages it is also underlined the maturity reached by Italian Institutions. Contrary to what many people thought, that real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005551892
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Red Tape and Corruption
Guriev, Sergei - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
bribes to conceal the information produced through red tape. The former kind of corruption tends to reduce red tape, while …We study the emergence and interaction of red tape and corruption in a principal-bureaucrat-agent hierarchy. The … the social optimum if the bureaucrat in charge of red tape is corrupt. We consider two types of corruption. First, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123811
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Governance Redux: The Empirircal Challenge
Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2004
survey of enterprises carried out for the GCR, we find that firms from emerging economies single out corruption and excessive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126032
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The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies
Campos, Nauro F; Giovannoni, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...
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THE NATURE OF THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY. SOME EVIDENCE FROM OECD COUNTRIES
Bovi, Maurizio - Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) - 2003
Economic theory suggests that taxation, regulations, efficiency of the bureaucracy and corruption are among the causes … public sectors, many OECD countries have raised the tax burden up to late 1990s and improved their institutions. This has led …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005449504
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Do Attitudes Towards Corruption Differ Across Cultures? Experimental Evidence from Australia, India, Indonesia andSingapore
Cameron, L.; Chaudhuri, A.; Erkal, N.; Gangadharan, L. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2005
This paper examines cultural differences in attitudes towards corruption by analysing individual-decision making in a … corrupt experimental environment. Attitudes towards corruption play a critical role in the persistence of corruption. Our … allow us to explore whether, in environments characterized by lower levels of corruption, there is both a lower propensity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005458672
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How does corruption affect public debt? An empirical analysis
Cooray, Arusha; Schneider, Friedrich - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between corruption and public debt in 106 countries. Results suggest that … corruption leads to an increase in public debt. We also investigate if the effect of corruption on pblic debt is increased by … government expenditure, the shadow economy and military expenditure. We find that the effect of corruption on public debt is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368254
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Price Adjustment under the Table
Levy, Daniel - In: Handbook of Frauds, Scams, and Swindles: Failures of …, (pp. 17-34). 2009
Based on a first-hand account, this paper offers evidence on corrupt price setting and price adjustment mechanisms that were illegally employed under the Soviet planning and rationing regime in the USSR. The evidence is anecdotal, and is based on personal experience during the years 1960–1971...
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Price adjustment under the Table: Evidence on Efficiency-Enhancing Corruption
Levy, Daniel - In: European Journal of Political Economy 23 (2007) 2, pp. 423-447
prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140513
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Corruption and Anticorruption in the Czech Republic
Lizal, Lubomir; Kocenda, Evzen - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2000
It is widely acknowledged that corruption has negative impact on economy and society. Transition process in the Central … and Eastern Europe (CEE) uncovered dormant possibilities for corruption that consequently required appropriate steps to be … taken against. We attempted to document the state of corruption in the Czech Republic and the measures introduced to fight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652657