Using enterprise data for the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS, this study examines the effects of corruption on productivity. Corruption is defined as a “bribe tax” and is compared to another form of institutional inefficiency, which is often believed to be closely linked...

Using enterprise data for the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS, this study examines the effects of corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease the day-to-day operation of firms. The effects...

Using enterprise data for the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS, this study examines the effects of corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease the day-to-day operation of firms. The effects...

This paper sets up a simple extension of the basic Ramsey model to include tourism and it provides a theoretical analysis of the efficiency, equity and disincentive of work effects of commodity taxation in the presence of tourists. Tourism is a special export commodity for which the effect of a...

Gooroochurn N. and Hanley A. (2005) Spillover effects in long-haul visitors between two regions, Regional Studies 39 , 727-739. A new body called Tourism Ireland, funded jointly by the British and Irish Governments, has been set up to promote tourism for the entire island of Ireland. This study...