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The effect of public corruption on Covid-19 fatality rate : a cross-country examination
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021
This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross …-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486422
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494350
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A New Cross-National Measure of Corruption
Escresa, Laarni; Picci, Lucio - 2015
A new measure of cross-national corruption is constructed based on the geographic distribution of public officials … involved in cross-border corruption cases. A comparison is made between the Public Administration Corruption Index (PACI) and … increasingly valid cross-national measure of corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014155591
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Corruption, Fatigued Democracy and Bad Governance : Are They Co-Determinants of Poverty Risk and Social Exclusion in Europe? A Cross-Country Macro-Level Comparison
Bosco, Bruno - 2016
by countries' political, institutional and legal characteristics and particularly by the level of perceived corruption in … notwithstanding, results indicate that corruption and poor institutional quality significantly interact with economic cofactors and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000647
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The Effect of Public Corruption on COVID-19 Fatality Rate : A Cross-Country Examination
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021
This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross …-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239558
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Religious Attitudes Toward Bribery : A Comparative Study
McGee, Robert W.; Benk, Serkan; Yuzbasi, Bahadir - 2022
The present study is part of a much larger study that examines the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. In this study, data were taken from the most recent World Values Survey. The main demographic variable examined was religion. Overall, nearly 70...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030029
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The Ethics of Accepting a Bribe : An Empirical Study of Opinion in the USA, Brazil, Germany and China
Hernandez, Teresa - 2014
This paper presents the results of an empirical study of attitudes toward bribe taking in the largest economies on four continents – the USA, Brazil, Germany and China. The authors use the Human Beliefs and Values Survey data to examine several demographic variables, including gender, age,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055212
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Tax rates with corruption: labour-market effects ; empirical cross-country comparisons on OECD countries
Lackó, Mária (contributor) - 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 …. -- Taxation ; corruption ; labour market ; hidden economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435426
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Is Corruption in China 'Out of Control'? A Comparison with the U.S. In Historical Perspective
Ramirez, Carlos D. - 2012
This paper compares corruption in China over the past 15 years with corruption in the U.S. between 1870 and 1930 …, periods that are roughly comparable in terms of real income per capita. Corruption indicators for both countries and both … periods are constructed by tracking corruption news in prominent U.S. newspapers. Several robustness checks confirm the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097049
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Do Attitudes Towards Corruption Differ Across Cultures? Experimental Evidence from Australia, India, Indonesia and Singapore
Cameron, Lisa; Chaudhuri, Ananish; Erkal, Nisvan; … - 2014
This paper examines cultural differences in attitudes towards corruption by analysing individual-decision making in a … corrupt experimental environment. Attitudes towards corruption play a critical role in the persistence of corruption. Our … allow us to explore whether, in environments characterized by lower levels of corruption, there is both a lower propensity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063075