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CORRUPTION IN EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA: DO MANUFACTURING FIRMS SUFFER THE MOST? [PDF]

open access: yesAnalele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie
This paper investigates corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Using World Bank’s BEEPS IV and BEEPS V surveys, we investigate the degree of corruption in these countries for different industries.
HALIL D. KAYA
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Bribe-proof Rules in the Division Problem [PDF]

open access: yes
The division problem consists of allocating an amount of a perfectly divisible good among a group of n agents with single-peaked preferences. A rule maps preference profiles into n shares of the amount to be allocated.
Alejandro Neme   +1 more
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Corruption and firm behavior [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper investigates how corruption affects firrm behavior. Firms can engage in two types of corruption when seeking a public service: cost-reducing "collusive" corruption and cost increasing "coercive" corruption. Using an original and unusually rich
Djankov, Simeon, Sequeira, Sandra
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Gift Authorship: An Unethical Practice in Medical Writing

open access: yesJournal of Islamic International Medical College, 2021
“I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance” (dGraham Greene).
Ishtiaq Ahmed
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Corruption as a Barrier to Entry: Theory and Evidence [PDF]

open access: yes
Conventional wisdom depicts corruption as a tax on incumbent firms. This paper challenges this view in two ways. First, by arguing that corruption matters not so much because of the value of the bribe ("tax"), but because of another less studied feature ...
Campos, Nauro F.   +2 more
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Social norms and corruption [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
We explore theoretically and empirically whether corruption is contagious and whether conditional cooperation matters. We argue that the decision to bribe bureaucrats depends on the frequency of corruption within a society.
Dong, Bin, Dulleck, Uwe, Torgler, Benno
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Are corruption and taxation really harmful to growth? - firm-level evidence [PDF]

open access: yes
Exploiting a unique data set containing information about the estimated bribe payments of Ugandan firms, the authors study the relationship between bribe payments, taxes, and firm growth in Uganda for the period 1995-97.
Fisman, Raymond, Svensson, Jakob
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Reinstating Combinatorial Protections for Manipulation and Bribery in Single-Peaked and Nearly Single-Peaked Electorates

open access: yes, 2015
Understanding when and how computational complexity can be used to protect elections against different manipulative actions has been a highly active research area over the past two decades.
Larson, Kate, Menon, Vijay
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