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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Bribes"”.
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Are Bribes the Only Way to Get Things Done? An Analysis of Public Perception and Willingness to Pay Bribes in Armenia
It is widely recognized that corruption hinders the development of a country, negatively impacting its political, economic, social, and environmental spheres. Armenia is no exception; corruption tops the list of problems the country is currently facing. Armenia continues to rank poorly on …
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A study of corruption in transition countries
Past theoretical research has explored whether bribes paid by firms to government officials are greater under a decentralized bureaucracy where the firm faces numerous government officials or under a monopolistic one. Presumably, bribes are bid down in the former as officials compete for bribes. …
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Mutor i det godas tjänst? : Biståndsarbetare i samtal om vardaglig korruption
… in developing countries? In what ways are bribes condemned, excused, or justified? While aid workers may feel obliged to adhere to anticorruption norms, they are also expected to work as efficiently as possible in regions often described as corrupt. The empirical material consists of …
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Three essays on the economics of corruption
… positive. Second, the entrepreneur might pay the bribes without getting the permit. Third, the model confirms the efficiency wage argument; that is, a higher wage discourages corruption by lowering the probability that bureaucrat will accept bribes for fear of losing their jobs if get caught. More …
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A Deconstruction of Dexter: An Analysis of Noble Cause Corruption Within a Crime Drama
… factors such as brutality, dishonesty, accepting bribes, and using falsified evidence. This research project examines noble cause corruption (NCC), an area that scholarship has ignored until the last ten years. NCC is defined by Crank and Caldero (2007) as using illegal means to achieve good ends. …
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Three Essays on Corruption and Collusion
… single item to a computerized buyer who accepts bribes and determines ties in bids and bribes randomly. In the closing periods, only 13.5% of auctions display the collusive equilibrium, but 58.7% of selling prices are noncompetitive. In comparison with simulated predictions for auctions that are …
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Estimating the effects of foreign bribery legislation in the international economy
Foreign bribery - the payment of bribes across borders - poses a classic collective action problem in theory. A firm may extract benefits through the payment of bribes to foreign public officials without its own country bearing the associated costs of governmental corruption, and hence while …
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Essays in political economy
… implying an elasticity of citizen supply of bribes ranging from 0.45 to -0.95. Social incentives have no effect. Similarly, providing information about other drivers' responses to treatment (to shift social norms) does not affect behavior. Drivers' appear remarkably inelastic in their supply …
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Essays on the political economy of development
… friendship formation; and supervisors demand bribes from their officials with the goal of maximizing returns from unexposed officials. Individual merchant friendship formation imposes externalities on other merchants. I find that short-term policies can have long-term perverse effects. …
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Factors Determining Loan Repayment in Microfinance Institutions: The Case of Dar Es Salaam Clients
… loan officers to abuse their position in asking bribes from borrowers and make client risk check list analysis which will correctly earmark a possible loan defaulter. Borrowers Training on entrepreneurial skills and practice are equally important to increase the possible loan repayment.
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Survivors of sexual violence confronting their perpetrators
… violence and if the perpetrator used presents or bribes the perpetrator was also more likely to admit. However, if the perpetrator used negative approaches to ensure silence from the victim, such as physical violence, threats or blaming the victim when confronted, the perpetrator was less likely …
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Systemic Corruption: A Multi-Theoretic, Multi-Level and Mixed Methods Analysis of the Interplay among Institutional Logics, Strategic Agency and Reward Expectancy
… powers over state rules and resources to demand bribes for self-enrichment. The demand-side theory of corruption, which assumes that bribe payers are passive victims of avaricious bureaucrats, has dominated research and anti-corruption policymaking over the past two decades.This dissertation, …
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An exploration into the challenges and experiences of South Sudanese male refugees living in Pretoria, South Africa
… they took advantage of this and asked for bribes from these refugees.
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An assessment of the anti-corruption strategies in Namibia's public sector
… of tender regulations, favouritism, accepting of bribes, nepotism and extortion. However, it is critical to mention that corruption is likely to persist because officials who are not necessarily committed to fight corruption are heading some of public and private entities. The paper concurs with …
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Examining small and medium enterprises’ responses to public personnel petty corruption: the case of “The Arab Republic of Egypt”
… action, third party delegation) and informal (bribes, facilitation payments, gifts) responses, with their decision-making influenced by sectoral demands, regulatory constraints, and socio-cultural norms. The study identifies two distinct response patterns: single-action responses and adaptive, …
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Implications of the Different Experiences of Corruption on Police Confidence and Legitimacy in Ghana: An Exploratory Study.
… at commercial drivers for failing to pay bribes to the police resulting in, for instance, unnecessary journey delays. The impact of these experiences on citizens’ perceptions of police legitimacy and confidence in the Ghanaian police are discussed.
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Media coverage, industrial policy, and safety : explaining shifting state and Private ownership in China's coal-mining industry
… mines were major providers of fiscal revenue and bribes. A major closure campaign by the Center in the late-1990s failed. Yet after 2007 - in the face of much conflict - several, though not all, of the major coal provinces forcibly nationalized most of the private mines, creating the SOE-dominated …
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Lietuvos Respublikos specialiųjų tyrimų tarnyba (kompetencija ir veiklos praktika) /
… Many business people are prone to giving bribes hoping that in 95 cases out of 100 it will help them to achieve their aims. Such practice as well as constantly increasing degrees of corruption apparently show that problem of corruption is relevant and has to be solved. The topic of final …
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THE MECHANICS OF ORGANIZATIONAL DEVIANCE: CLANDESTINE ROUTINES IN THE ODEBRECHT CASE
… to paying hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to government officials around the world. This dissertation examines Odebrecht as an instance of institutionalized organizational deviance. Whereas much of the existing literature focuses on the drivers of organizational misconduct or on the …
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Participatory autocracy : private entrepreneurs, legislatures, and property protection in China
… in turn, deters local officials from demanding bribes, ad hoc taxes, and other types of informal payments. I deploy both qualitative and quantitative methods to support the argument. First, to understand state-business relations in China, I conducted 106 in-depth interviews with private …
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