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Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? [PDF]
Voters often dismantle constitutional checks and balances on the executive. If such checks and balances limit presidential abuses of power and rents, why do voters support their removal?
Daron Acemoglu +2 more
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Fighting corruption with asymmetric penalties and leniency [PDF]
, 2007 Corrupt arrangements are characterized by a high risk of opportunism: double-dealing, whistle-blowing and extortion are significant uncertainties for participants in corrupt transactions.
Lambsdorff, Johann, Nell, Mathias
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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda [PDF]
In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household ...
Jennifer Hunt
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Bribe-proof Rules in the Division Problem [PDF]
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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Conditional bribery: Insights from incentivized experiments across 18 nations. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Dorrough AR +4 more
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Corruption as a Barrier to Entry: Theory and Evidence [PDF]
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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CORRUPTION IN EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA: DO MANUFACTURING FIRMS SUFFER THE MOST? [PDF]
Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria EconomieThis 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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Social norms and corruption [PDF]
, 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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Role of Guanxi (interpersonal relationship) in bribe-taking behaviors: evidence from China. [PDF]
Curr Psychol, 2023 Niu B +5 more
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Are corruption and taxation really harmful to growth? - firm-level evidence [PDF]
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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