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Corruption as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Costa Rica

Gingerich, Daniel; Oliveros, Virginia; Corbacho, Ana; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2015

An influential body of scholarship argues that corruption behaves as a selffulfilling prophecy. The idea of this work … is that levels of corruption emerge endogenously as a result of a society-wide coordination game in which ther individual … returns to corrupt behavior are a function of how disposed towards corruption the other members of society are perceived as …

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Does the Investment Climate Matter?: Microeconomic Foundations of Growth in Latin America

Gandelman, Néstor; Alaimo, Verónica; Olarreaga, Marcelo; … - Inter-American Development Bank

Although the Latin American region's growth rates are at a three decade high, they have been historically disappointing in relative terms, which cannot be dissociated from the microeconomic environment in which firms operate. Policy makers may need to complement their focus on macroeconomic...

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Privatization in Latin America: Myths and Reality

López-de-Silanes, Florencio; Serra, Pablo; Gertler, Paul; … - Inter-American Development Bank

, corporate governance, economic policy, finance, and anti-corruption efforts. This publication belongs to the Latin American …

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Does the Investment Climate Matter?: Microeconomic Foundations of Growth in Latin America

Gandelman, Néstor; Alaimo, Verónica; Olarreaga, Marcelo; … - Inter-American Development Bank

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Privatization in Latin America: Myths and Reality

López-de-Silanes, Florencio; Serra, Pablo; Gertler, Paul; … - Inter-American Development Bank

, corporate governance, economic policy, finance, and anti-corruption efforts. This publication belongs to the Latin American …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943619

Investment Climate and Employment Growth: The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations across Firms

Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés-Serra, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at … firms. On the other hand, corruption and poor access to infrastructure reduce employment growth by affecting the growth of …

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Can Bottom-Up Institutional Reform Improve Service Delivery?

Molina, Ezequiel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

This article makes three contributions to the literature. First, it provides new evidence of the impact of community monitoring interventions using a unique dataset from the Citizen Visible Audit (CVA) program in Colombia. In particular, this article studies the effect of social audits on...

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Anticorruption Activities Trust Fund: Operational Guidelines

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2007

's borrowing member countries to prevent and control corruption, by supporting the design and implementation of policies …

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The Making of Policy: Institutionalized or Not?

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

This paper develops a framework for analyzing different policymaking styles, their causes and their consequences in Latin America, finding that lower institutionalization and greater use of alternative political technologies (APTs) are more likely the lower the cost of using these technologies,...

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Diagnosis corruption : fraud in Latin America's public hospitals

Di Tella, Rafael (contributor); … - 2001

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