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Based on a first-hand account, this paper offers evidence on corrupt price setting and price adjustment mechanisms that were illegally employed under the Soviet planning and rationing regime in the USSR. The evidence is anecdotal, and is based on personal experience during the years 1960–1971...
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prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …
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In recent years the topic of corruption has attracted a great deal of attention. However, there is still a lack of … substantial empirical evidence about the determinants of corruption. This empirical study analyses a cross-section of individuals … using the World Values Survey wave III (1995-1997), investigating the justifiability of corruption. The major aim in the …
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In recent years the topics of illegal activities such as corruption or tax evasion have attracted a great deal of …
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This study shows that the relative size of the youth bulge matters for how corruption affects the internal stability of … a political system. We argue that corruption cannot buy political stability (e.g., the greasing hypothesis) in countries … find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population and corruption on internal political …
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assets, growth rate of output, employment, corruption plus government regulations, taxes, political and economical stability …
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used five proxies for governance variables, namely, control of corruption, rule of law, government effectiveness, political … development but control of corruption, political stability and investment attraction have not. The study concluded that for WAMZ … against the dark spectra called corruption must be won within a reasonable time frame through strengthening of existing …
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Fraud is one of the most harmful phenomena, because it leads to collapse of organizations, causes economic downfall of countries, and destroys faith in a country's capital markets. The impact of fraud is complex and has varying degrees depending on political and financial institutional...
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these sectors are confronted with different challenges ranging from corruption, political risk, economic uncertainty, sunk … their private counterparts. When it comes to the determinants, economic policy uncertainty, corruption, and political …
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hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002-2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15-64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …
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