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Questo lavoro intende affrontare la questione degli assetti istituzionali e delle modalità organizzative dell’intervento dello Stato a favore dello sviluppo territoriale. Il tema è di crescente interesse in considerazione del moltiplicarsi dei livelli di governo (sovranazionale, nazionale,...
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This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the resulting inequality as crony bias in the political...
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of governance standards; ii) in misgoverned settings, FDI firms may magnify the problems of state capture and procurement …
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corruption, with little attention paid to the role played by firms. Consequently, the links between corporate governance and … national governance have been unexplored. This paper summarises the results of the Business Environment and Enterprise … Performance Survey (BEEPS) across 20 transition economies, providing an assessment of governance and corruption from the …
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Globalisation, governance and economic performance affect each other in very complex mutual relationships. In this … paper, we establish a clear and well-circumscribed hypothesis: “is there an effect of globalisation on governance?” To test … available theoretical explanations of causal relationships between globalisation and governance. Microeconomic theory helps us …
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Traditionally, national governance and corruption challenges have been seen as: i) particularly daunting in the poorer … institutions, iii) a challenge within public sectors, and, iv) divorced from global governance or security issues - seen as … governance constraints, and corruption in particular, is a key determinant of a country's global competitiveness. These findings …
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This paper analyses the anti-corruption activities of 24 transition countries in the period 1999-2002. These activities are divided into omnibus anti-corruption programmes, legislative reform aimed at tackling corruption, and adherence to international anti-corruption conventions. The paper...
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This study analyzes the interaction of agency problems in public policy and of agency problems inside the firm: it investigates the case of a large privatized firm subject to many policy constraints. The last steps of Telefonica's privatization were designed to promote a disperse ownership and...
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Privatization became a central element of economic reforms in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1990s. Yet, empirical evidence regarding the impact of privatization remains scarce. Since the seminal work of CAMPBELL-WHITE & BHATIA [1998], covering transactions on the African...
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about state capacity in Nigeria by taking stock of economic and governance issues. Using a simple growth model, we …
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