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How Much Do Perceptions of Corruption Really Tell Us?

Weber Abramo, Claudio - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-3, pp. 1-56

average opinion about least petty and grand corruption. The findings reported here challenge the value of perceptions of …Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey … show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among …

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Corruption, shadow economy and income inequality: Evidence from Asia

Kar, Saibal; Saha, Shrabani - 2012

A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … to find that both Corruption Perception Index and ICRG index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic …

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How does corruption affect public debt? An empirical analysis

Cooray, Arusha; Schneider, Friedrich - 2013

This paper examines the relationship between corruption and public debt in 106 countries. Results suggest that … corruption leads to an increase in public debt. We also investigate if the effect of corruption on pblic debt is increased by … government expenditure, the shadow economy and military expenditure. We find that the effect of corruption on public debt is …

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The Relationship between Corruption and the Shadow Economy in Ukraine and Other Central and Eastern European Countries

Cherviakova, Valentyna; Cherviakova, Tetiana - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 4, pp. 7-30

The article investigates the causes, essence, and peculiarities of corruption and the shadow economy, as well as how … between levels of corruption and the shadow economy in all Central and Eastern European countries. However, the degree to … which corruption impacts the variation in the levels of the shadow economy differs significantly in countries across the …

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The economic research potentials of the German Socio-Economic Panel study

Schröder, Carsten; König, Johannes; Fedorets, Alexandra; … - In: German Economic Review 21 (2020) 3, pp. 335-371

We provide a concise introduction to a household-panel data infrastructure that provides the international research community with longitudinal data of private households in Germany since 1984: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We demonstrate the comparative strength of the SOEP data in...

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The economics of risky health behaviors

Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...

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The distribution of individual conformity under social pressure across societies

Michaeli, Moti; Spiro, Daniel - 2014

This paper studies the aggregate distribution of declared opin- ions and behavior when heterogeneous individuals make the trade- off between being true to their private opinions and conforming to an endogenous social norm. The model sheds light on how various punishment regimes induce conformity...

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Tax Rates with Corruption: Labour-market Effects. Empirical Cross-country Comparisons on OECD Countries

Lackó, Mária - 2006

The paper investigates how tax rates, corruption and institutional aspects of the labour market influence the size of … corruption, as well as the establishment of a new concept and variable, the subjective tax rate. Alternative regression …

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Interrelationships of the hidden economy and some visible segments of the labour market

Lackó, Mária - 2007

corruption being prominent among them. In part 4 we set up and quantify a model to analyze the interrelationships among the … consumption and the level of corruption. We also demonstrate that the concealed consumption share plays an important role in the …

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Az adóráták és a korrupció hatása az adóbevételekre - nemzetközi összehasonlítás: OECD országok, 2000 - 2004

Lackó, Mária - 2008

corruption on the variation of relative tax revenues (their ratio to GDP) in the OECD countries in 2000-2004. The relationship … between the interaction of tax rates with corruption and the relative tax revenues shows an inverse U-shape line, as if it … the interaction between the tax rates and the level of corruption, and the third one is a negative effect of the …

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