Hosszú vajúdás után, 2002 õszén Magyarországon is beindult a SAPARD- (Special Accession Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development) program, amely az EU elõcsatlakozási programcsomagján belül a kelet-közép-európai mezõgazdaság és a vidékfejlesztés csatlakozásra való...

A tanulmány azt vizsgálja, hogyan befolyásolják az adóráták, a korrupció és a különböző munkapiaci intézmények a munkapiac egyes szegmenseinek - a munkanélküliek, a foglalkoztatottak, az önfoglalkoztatottak, a rejtett gazdaságban dolgozók csoportjainak - relatív nagyságát...

This paper demonstrates the effect of country level corruption on illicit behavior of individuals in a foreign country. The empirical research investigates the probability of individuals being apprehended overseas due to the influence of corrupt environment in their home countries. Using...

This paper uses panel data of OECD countries during the period 1995–2003 to examine how corruption affects fertility. The Corruption Perceptions Index is used to measure the degree of corruption. Fixed effects IV estimation and the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel estimation are employed to control...

This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical literature, we argue that both institutional features are complements rather than substitutes in controlling corruption. Our regressions are based on a cross section of 170...

Los planteamientos más comunes a favor de la liberalización del comercio y las finanzas internacionales afirman que políticas aperturistas tendrán un impacto positivo en la reducción de la corrupción. No obstante la complejidad del estudio de estas relaciones, la mayoría de...

The article addresses how merchants and wine producers interacted while oscillating between competition and collaboration in their internal relations. Spanning a period of more than a century, it addresses three chronological periods: 1900-1940, 1940-1994, and 1994 to the present. In the first,...

This paper estimates local fiscal multipliers for green and non-green public works in Italian provinces, and disentangles the geographic and institutional heterogeneities behind them. I construct a fiscal shock by taking the variation of the difference between actual and budgeted spending, and I...

We examine the human development consequences of transferring responsibility for public service provision to local governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that devolution of the responsibility for health functions from...

The European Commission co-funds public projects through the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) to stimulate the sustainable economic development of EU Member States. The ESIF budget is about 90 billion euros annually and ESIF beneficiaries are explicitly encouraged to increase...