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We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources. In a panel of 132 countries over the period 1962-2009, we show that oil windfalls increase the probability of conflict in onshore-rich countries, while they decrease this probability in...
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In recent years, there has been rapid development of the literature linking climate change and armed conflicts. Although no conclusionary evidence has been found of a direct link between climate change and armed conflicts, still climate change has been addressed as an important trigger,...
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countries of the world. Over the years, the G20 agenda has evolved to include pertinent issues for both developed countries and … action became permanent features of the G20 agenda. Tackling corruption was one of them. Corruption is being characterised as … an international problem requiring collective corrective action. The G20 established an Anti-Corruption Working Group as …
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that emergency measures, in the times of economic and social fragility, may result in corruption. This paper investigates … the potential threats of corruption due to fiscal expansion during the pandemic and discusses recent evidence from G20 … members on the mechanisms in place to address corruption. More generally, using available secondary data, the paper compares …
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places endowed with more amenities. In the crossroad between these factors, this paper investigates corruption as key element …. Results suggest the dual role of push and pull mechanisms at play, as high corruption incentivizes Italian skilled mobility to … destinations that, instead, exhibit lower corruption. Moreover, sensitivity of the prospective tertiary students to corruption …
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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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This study investigates the connection between rent-seeking behaviour, corruption activity and quality of institutions … seems to have generated a growth of corruption activity, arisen from the opportunity of rent extraction. In particular … concentrated and administrative procedures are more complicated. To determine the causal effect of the subsidies on corruption, the …
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Corruption literature within economics has long returned ambiguous results with no concise cause or impact of … corruption identified. This meta-analysis aims to find synergy within the corruption literature by assessing macroeconomic … empirical studies that evaluate whether corruption "greases or sands" the wheels of economic development. The meta …
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This paper develops a framework for analyzing different policymaking styles, their causes and their consequences in Latin America, finding that lower institutionalization and greater use of alternative political technologies (APTs) are more likely the lower the cost of using these technologies,...
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currency, corruption, and terror funding. With time, more targets were added such as the creation of a cashless economy …
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