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This study assess the effect of corruption on the occurrence of banking crisis for a sample of 38 countries over the … period 2000 – 2017. We consider both the direct and the indirect channels through which corruption might affect the … occurrence of banking crisis. We also check using a threshold regression approach for the existence of a corruption threshold …
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hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002 - 2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15 - 64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …
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hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002–2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15-64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437952
public corruption. In contrast, sanctions have no significant effect on political stability in countries with lower levels of … corruption. These results are robust across various model specifications, control variables, competing moderator, and alternative … during sanctions by improving their control of corruption. …
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In order to study corruption when a person can adjudicate over property rights, we extend the Tullock contest model by … mandated, then the grand coalition forms with no corruption. There is corruption if he colludes with a subset of the workers … is, to divide and rule becomes an attractive prospect. This matches the empirical association between corruption and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014099110
hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002-2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15-64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030326
This survey explores some of the institutional and political factors that set the underlying conditions for the emergence of conflict. The political economy perspective offered here differs from other important surveys and analyses of the same topic, which have focused on the ethnic dimensions...
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This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal con-flicts. Regional inequalities are measured by the population-weighted coefficient of variation of regional GDP per capita. As the main innovation, I use a panel data set of country-level re- gional...
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This paper highlights the importance of natural resource concentration and ethnic group regional concentration for ethnic conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat points) is identified. The theory predicts war to be more...
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We establish a theoretical as well as empirical framework to assess the role of resource endowments and their geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main predictions of the theory are that conflict tends to be more likely when at least one country has natural resources; when the...
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