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Microeconomics of corruption among developing economies [PDF]

, 2011
A simple micro model of a firm's investment decision made under the uncertainty of the success of a bribe of a government official is developed. The probability of success of the bribe is a function of the amount paid to the official to get things done ...
Gander, James P.
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Who Must Pay Bribes and How Much? Evidence from a cross-section of firms [PDF]

This paper uses an unique data set on corruption containing quantitative information on estimated bribe payments of Ugandan firms. The data has two striking features; not all firms report they need to pay bribes; and, there is a considerable variation in
Svensson, Jakob
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Linguistic and cultural basis of the phraseological units denoting the notion «Present» in English and Ukrainian languages [PDF]

, 2012
У статті представлено дослідження фразеологічних одиниць на позначення поняття «Подарунок» в англійській та українській мовах. Науково-дослідна робота здійснена з метою виокремлення лінгвокраїнознавчих особливостей сприйняття та тлумачення ФО для того ...
Сіліванова, І.М. (I. Silivanova)
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Reinstating Combinatorial Protections for Manipulation and Bribery in Single-Peaked and Nearly Single-Peaked Electorates

, 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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Corruption and firm behavior [PDF]

, 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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Non-collusive Corruption: Theory and Evidence from Education Sector in Bangladesh [PDF]

We study non-collusive corruption in the education sector. For this purpose, we construct a simple theoretical model that captures non-collusive corruption between service providers (teachers) and service demanders (students).
Asadul Islam, Ratbek Dzumashev, Zakir H. Khan   +2 more
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Do Criminals Politicians Reduce Corruption? Evidence from India [PDF]

This paper relates unique data on criminal records of local politicians in India to corruption, crime and poverty. Using a regression discontinuity design, whereby individuals living in districts where a criminal politician barely won are compared to ...
Matthieu Chemin
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Corruption as a barrier to entry: Theory and evidence [PDF]

, 2010
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 of
Campos, Nauro F., Estrin, Saul, Proto, Eugenio   +2 more
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ON CORRUPTION AND ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA

Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2012
The complex of anti-corruption legislation adopted in the recent years by the Russian Federation state bodies did not significantly influence the results of corruption counteraction in our country. The article gives statistical data for corruption crimes
A. U. Dikayev
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THE CONCEPT OF A NON-PECUNIARY BRIBE IN LIGHT OF THE PRINCIPLE OF LEGAL CERTAINTY

Jurisprudencija
his article analyses the notion of non-pecuniary bribes as an attribute of corruption offenses and draws attention to the problem of high legal uncertainty in understanding the content of this legal concept.
Oleg Fedosiuk
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