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Kraay, Aart - 2013

officials. Yet it is well known that survey respondents are reticent to tell the truth about activities to which social and … legal stigma are attached, implying a downward bias in survey-based estimates of corruption. This paper develops a method to … combination of conventional and random-response survey questions. The responses to these different types of questions reflect …

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Doing the survey two-step : the effects of reticence on estimates of corruption in two-stage survey questions

Karalashvili, Nona; Kraay, Aart; Murrell, Peter - 2015

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Doing the survey two-step : the effects of reticence on estimates of corruption in two-stage survey questions

Karalashvili, Nona; Kraay, Aart; Murrell, Peter - In: Institutions, governance and the control of corruption, (pp. 335-387). 2018

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Misunderestimating corruption

Kraay, Aart; Murrell, Peter - 2013

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Doing the Survey Two-Step : The Effects of Reticence on Estimates of Corruption in Two-Stage Survey Questions

Karalashvili, Nona - 2015

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How large is the government spending multiplier? : Evidence from World Bank lending

Kraay, Aart - 2010

This paper proposes a novel method of isolating fluctuations in public spending that are likely to be uncorrelated with contemporaneous macroeconomic shocks and can be used to estimate government spending multipliers. The approach relies on two features unique to many low-income countries: (1)...

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Government Spending Multipliers in Developing Countries : Evidence from Lending by Official Creditors

Kraay, Aart - 2012

This paper uses a novel loan-level dataset covering lending by official creditors to developing country governments to construct an instrument for public spending that can be used to estimate government spending multipliers. Loans from official creditors (primarily multilateral development banks...

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Sovereign Defaults and Expropriations : Empirical Regularities

Eden, Maya - 2012

This paper uses a large cross-country dataset to empirically examine factors associated with sovereign defaults on external private creditors and expropriation of foreign direct investments in developing countries since the 1970s. In the long run, sovereign defaults and expropriations are likely...

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"Crowding in" and the Returns to Government Investment in Low-Income Countries

Eden, Maya - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of government investment on private investment in a sample of 39 low-income countries. Fluctuations in a predetermined component of disbursements on loans from official creditors to developing country governments are used as an instrument for fluctuations in...

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Misunderestimating corruption

Kraay, Aart; Murrell, Peter - In: The review of economics and statistics 98 (2016) 3, pp. 455-466

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