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Can bribery buy health? Evidence from post-communist countries

Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Popova, Olga - 2019

bribery and show that bribing for any type of public service, not just for health services, has an adverse impact. We also …Corruption is pervasive, but we know little about its effects on individual lives. This paper examines whether living … in a corrupt society has deleterious effects on health. Using individual-level data from 28 post-communist countries, we …

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Happiness in Eastern Europe

Hayo, Bernd - 2004

This paper analyses the determinants of happiness in seven Eastern European transition countries during the early phase of economic transition. The analysis of representative survey data in an ordered logit model shows that those core socio-demographic and economic variables known to be relevant...

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The determinants of asset stripping: theory and evidence from the transition economies

Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2005

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...

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Oil and Growth in Transition Countries

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. - 2009

This paper examines the impact of oil on economic growth in transition economies of the former Soviet Union (FSU) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). We use oil production and reserves data in a series of panel estimations to show that oil has had strong and robust positive growth effects...

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Foreign Investments and Institutional Convergence in Southeastern Europe

Kaditi, Eleni A. - 2010

Foreign investments are in the focus of most governments around the world. In order to be able to set a policy agenda which is successful in promoting FDI, it is necessary to understand their detfirminants. This paper examines whether and to what extent sound institutions and the degree of...

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The Rise of Obesity in Transition Economies: Theory and Evidence from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey

Huffman, Sonya K.; Rizov, Marian - 2007

health and demand for inputs in the health production function. The analysis provides infirmation on dietary patterns and …

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Public sector pay and corruption: measuring bribery from micro data

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2006

This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings …-reported compensation in the public sector. Using the conditions of labor market equilibrium, we develop an aggregate measure of bribery and … find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460 mln and 580 mln U.S. dollars (0 …

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Favoritism in the Public Provision of Goods in Developing Countries

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2004

Goods are often allocated publically by means of queuing processes in developing countries.In such situations, which group of citizens should a corrupt government official favor? In addition,what should be the basis for this favoritism? To the best of our knowledge, these salient questionshave...

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Patterns of Land Market Developments in Transition

Swinnen, Jo; Vranken, Liesbet - 2007

Transition countries provide a natural experiment to study the development of land markets. This paper provides survey-evidence of the variation in the development of land markets, identifies a series of patterns, and provides a set of hypotheses to explain these variations in land market...

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An almost-too-late warning mechanism for currency crises

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus; Slacik, Tomas - 2007

We propose exploiting the term structure of relative interest rates to obtain estimates of changes in the timing of a currency crisis as perceived by market participants. Our indicator can be used to evaluate the relative probability of a crisis occurring in one week as compared to a crisis...

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