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Corruption, innovation and firm growth : firm-level evidence from Egypt and Tunisia

Goedhuys, Micheline; Mohnen, Pierre A.; Taha, Tamer - In: Eurasian business review 6 (2016) 3, pp. 299-322

Using recently collected firm-level data from Egypt and Tunisia, this paper explores the effect of institutional … obstacles and corruption on the innovative behavior of firms and their effect on firms’ employment growth. We estimate the micro …-level interactions between corruption and institutional obstacles and test the hypothesis that corruption ‘greases the wheels’ of firm …

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Beyond the Panama Papers : the performance of EU good governance promotion

Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina; Warkotsch, Jana - 2017

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Corrupted votes and rule compliance

Apffelstaedt, Arno; Freundt, Jan - 2022 - This Version: 4th February 2020

Allegations of voter fraud accompany many real-world elections. How does electoral malpractice affect the acceptance of elected institutions? Using an online experiment in which people distribute income according to majority-elected rules, we show that those who experience vote buying or voter...

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Decentralization of firms in a country with weak institutions : evidence from Russia

Levina, Irina - 2018

in investment between really decentralized and other firms declines as corruption grows. Empirical research presented in … institutions, such as that of Russia. However, as the role of non-market factors (such as corruption) in firms' prosperity …

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Are new states more corrupt? : expert opinions vs. firms' experiences

Adhikari, Tamanna; Breen, Michael; Gillanders, Robert - 2017

We find that new states are perceived to be more corrupt even though businesses do not report more bribery in newer states. This is suggestive of an unearned, and likely high, reputational cost to being a new state. These findings hold over a number of specifications that include additional...

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Strengthening fragile states : evidence from mobile salary payments in Afghanistan

Blumenstock, Joshua E.; Callen, Michael; Faikina, Anastasiia - 2023

Building state capacity is uniquely challenging in fragile states. We report results from a randomized evaluation of a major Afghan government initiative to increase capacity by modernizing its payroll. The reform, which required teachers to biometrically register and receive salary payments via...

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Geography, Transparency and Institutions

Mayshar, Joram - 2013

theory to explain institutional differences between ancient Egypt and ancient Upper and Lower Mesopotamia. We also discuss …

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Using Discourse to Incentivize Cooperation in Arab-Muslim Culture : Experimental Evidence from Egypt

Mansour, Sarah; Hassan, Mazen; Voigt, Stefan; Amin, Engi - 2022

answer these questions, we ran two public good games with 276 participants in Egypt. In the first experiment, we show that …

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How Tempting is Corruption? - More Bad News About Economists

Frank, Björn; Schulze, Gunther G. - 1998

In this paper, we report on an experiment on corruption which investigates various determinants of corruptibility. We …

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Does the public sector discriminate against women? : occupational segregation prior to privatization in Egypt

Said, Mona - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 185-201

of ownership in Egypt. Using a large data set drawn from a survey of Egyptian establishments in the organized sector, the … model estimates confirm that gender-based pay discrimination is small in the government sector in Egypt and quite high by … service reform as opposed to privatisation of public enterprises in Egypt. - wage differentials ; occupational segregation …

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