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Central to the scientific debate about the 'informal sector' and the validity of the concept used to be a twofold challenge. The crux laid not only in the objective to explain the widely visible persistence of the informal economy in developing countries, but also in the identification of its...
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informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic … the empirical literature because it studies the effect of the interaction between growth and corruption in the informal …, economic growth interacts with corruption and produces negative net effects up to a corruption threshold of 4.79745 when this …
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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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development of many aspects of corruption, organized crime, markets, and the state. The lack of attention to informal systems can …
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support for this argument. -- asset stripping ; law enforcement ; corruption ; transition …
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We study the determinants of corruption in a sample of 40-odd authoritarian polities at the turn of the 21st century …. Recent studies have proposed several parallel mechanisms potentially relevant for variations in the extent of corruption in … corruption observed in non-democratic political systems. We investigate the importance to variations in corruption in …
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governors' terms, we find that corruption levels, as perceived by firms operating in different regions of Russia, increases … such information may serve as an explanation for the observed pattern of perceived corruption: if a governor gradually …, corruption increases over their terms, while in regions where governors are more likely to remain in office, perceived corruption …
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promoted to positions of national leadership. To curb corruption, President Xi Jinping stepped up investigations and … reduction in corruption of between 50.1% and 43.6% in the provinces either targeted by the central inspection teams or whose … party secretary was replaced by one appointed by Xi himself. Accordingly, this crackdown on corruption has also …
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prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058137