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resource-richest and most unequal countries in the world - Russia. While previous literature produced contradictory findings … income but increased the income share from unidentified sources traditionally associated with corruption. These effects of …
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resource-richest and most unequal countries in the world – Russia. While previous literature produced contradictory findings … income but increased the income share from unidentified sources traditionally associated with corruption. These effects of …
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resource-richest and most unequal countries in the world – Russia. While previous literature produced contradictory findings … income but increased the income share from unidentified sources traditionally associated with corruption. These effects of …
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deviation increase in resource windfalls decreases the average corruption level in states with no term limits by 15%, but … increases average corruption in states with term limits by 8%. These results suggest that the nature of political institutions … is important for understanding the nexus between resource windfalls and corruption …
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relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …
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relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …
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This paper estimates a stochastic production frontier, to investigate whether municipalities covered by oil royalties in the last decade have reduced their tax effort in Brazil. The issue is relevant to the prospect of a substantial increase in these revenues and the new rules for distribution...
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We study the role of an enforcer in the effectiveness of selective incentives in solving the collective action problem when groups take part in a contest. Cost functions exhibit constant elasticity of marginal effort costs. If prize valuations are homogeneous, our source of heterogeneity induces...
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