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This paper analyzes the impact of migration on destination-country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive … explore different channels through which corruption might migrate. We employ different estimation methods using Fixed Effects … find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the destination country's corruption level, immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044591
This paper analyzes the impact of migration on destination-country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive … explore different channels through which corruption might migrate. We employ different estimation methods using Fixed Effects … find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the destination country’s corruption level, immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948881
We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of … production. Pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic production. We show that cities are too … large and too few in number in uncoordinated equilibrium if economic growth implies increasing pollution (‘brown growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599729
We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can … levels of pollution are dependent on the levels of corruption. Our results hold when we control for the effects of other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092159
The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853849
This paper looks at a model in which two countries trade agricultural and manufactured commodities. The manufactured-goods sector produces with increasing returns to scale under conditions of monopolistic competition. It is shown that an increase in land endowment (or an increase in agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181409
Using a natural experiment from Germany, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. We identify employment and capital formation as main channels for higher income per square kilometer. As the spatial regression discontinuity design allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021421
We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of … production. Pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic production. We show that cities are too … large and too few in number in uncoordinated equilibrium if economic growth implies increasing pollution (‘brown growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315820
We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can … levels of pollution are dependent on the levels of corruption. Our results hold when we control for the effects of other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368501
In a country with weak institutional constraints on the executive, the real power might belong to the government bureaucracy rather than to an autocratic leader. We combine the Aghion-Tirole definition of formal and real authority with the Barro-Ferejohn model of political agency to study the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315704