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Why are some nations more effective at battling corruption than others? Are there different determinants in the fight … against corruption across developing nations? How do wealth effects play-out when existing corruption-control levels matter in … the corruption battle? To investigate these concerns we examine the determinants of corruption-control throughout the …
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Applying the Foster, Haltiwanger and Krizan (FHK) (2001) decomposition to plant-level manufacturing data from Chile and Korea, we find that the entry and exit of plants account for a larger fraction of aggregate productivity growth during periods of fast GDP growth. To analyze this relationship,...
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Applying the Foster, Haltiwanger, and Krizan (FHK) (2001) decomposition to plant-level manufacturing data from Chile and Korea, we find that the entry and exit of plants account for a larger fraction of aggregate productivity growth during periods of fast GDP growth. Studies of other countries...
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corruption. We argue that an anticipated oil boom may increase corruption by boosting the value attributed by an elite to being …-designed household surveys on perceived corruption in the public services/sector. These were carried out in São Tomé and Príncipe and in … corruption has occurred in São Tomé and Príncipe in recent years, ranging from 21 to 38% of the subjective scale. Consistently …
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This study provides the first empirical assessment of the causal impact of bureaucratic corruption on firms' financial … heterogeneous treatment effects across firm groups. Formally, the theoretical framework models how corruption may facilitate or …, reveals that corruption significantly increases the probability of a representative MSME and firm being financially …
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In this paper, I analyze how corruption in one country may be affected by its neighbors' corruption. It seeks to … explain why corruption is perpetuating in large geographical areas populated by developing countries despite anticorruption … efforts made in the single country. In our empirical approach, we capture the spatial dependency by regional corruption. Three …
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The article proposes a social network analysis of the main European capitalisms and its correspondence with an index of economic freedom. The analysis relates to two kinds of economic liberties taken from the concept of freedom formulated by Isaiah Berlin. While the first kind of freedom...
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Researchers utilizing regression discontinuity design (RDD) commonly test for running variable (RV) manipulation around a cutoff, but incorrectly assert that insignificant manipulation test statistics are evidence of negligible manipulation. I introduce simple frequentist equivalence testing...
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The paper describes tests of hypotheses from economic history and theory concerning the significance of financial development as a possible determinant of economic growth. The empirical analysis is based on a large panel data set covering 93 countries from 1970-90. It goes beyond existing...
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