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Sequeira, Sandra; Djankov, Simeon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper investigates how corruption affects firrm behavior. Firms can engage in two types of corruption when seeking a public service: cost-reducing "collusive" corruption and cost increasing "coercive" corruption. Using an original and unusually rich dataset on bribe payments at ports...

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Displacing corruption: evidence from a tariff liberalization program

Sequeira, Sandra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper investigates how corrupt public officials and private agents adjust to policy reforms that change opportunities for bribery deals to take place. I exploit an exogenously determined tariff liberalization program that altered opportunities to extract bribes through a particular method...

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Does public investment spur the land market?: evidence from transport improvement in Beijing

Wu, Wenjie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Over 140 billion CNY (1GBP=10CNY) has been spent between 2000 and 2012 in Beijing on the construction of new rail … near rail stations. Using unique vacant parcel-specific data, I estimate the significant heterogeneity in the … capitalization effects of rail transit development for multiple land uses in Beijing urbanised area. The results show that these …

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Does better rail access improve homeowners’ happiness?: evidence based on micro surveys in Beijing

Wu, Wenjie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

experienced fast urbanisation over the past decade. While existing studies provide marginal values for rail access on the real … using reported happiness data. This paper uses a difference-in-difference method to empirically measure the impact of rail …-and-after the opening of new rail stations in 2008 Beijing. I deal with the potential concern about the endogeneity in sorting …

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Chicken or egg? the PVAR econometrics of transportation

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Moeller, Kristoffer; Wendland, Nicolai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

To analyze the mutually dependent relationship between local economic performance and the demand for and supply of transport services, we employ the structural panel VAR method that is popular in the macroeconomic literature, but which has not previously been applied to the modeling of...

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Tariffs and corruption: evidence from a tariff liberalization program

Sequeira, Sandra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper investigates how corrupt public officials and firms adjust to policy reforms that change opportunities for bribery deals to take place. I take advantage of an exogenously determined tariff liberalization program that altered opportunities to extract bribes through a particular method...

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Urban development and air pollution: evidence from a global panel of cities

Hilber, Christian A. L.; Palmer, Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We exploit a unique panel of 75 metro areas (‘cities’) across the globe and employ a cityfixed effects model to identify the determinants of within-city changes in air pollution concentration between 2005 and 2011. Increasing car and population densities significantly reduce air pollution...

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Collective bargaining under complete information

Diaz-Moreno, Carlos; Galdon-Sanchez, Jose E. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

In this paper, we build and structurally estimate a complete information bargaining model of collective negotiation for Spain. For large firms, the assumption of complete information seems a sensible one, and it matches the collective bargaining environment better than the one provided by...

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Modelling vulnerability in the UK

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

In this paper we examine the concept of "vulnerability" (Townsend 1994) within the context of income mobility of the …

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The allocation of adaptation funding

Barr, Rhona F.; Fankhauser, Samuel; Hamilton, Kirk - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

. Physical impact and adaptive capacity together determine a country’s vulnerability to climate change. It seems both efficient …

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