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Showing 1 to 20 of 1007 for “"Corruption"”.
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Combating Corruption: A Comparison of National Anti-Corruption Efforts
… designed to monitor and control political corruption at the national level. The paper will provide comparisons of these arraignments and control systems across three nations. The thesis will identify differences across countries in terms of organizational and institutional political …
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Dynamics of Economic Corruption
Corruption, especially in developing countries, has been shown to have large persistent effects on inequality and economic growth. Efforts to eradicate or suppress corruption over the last two decades have floundered. This dissertation argues that urban population density is a major underlying …
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Corruption and Central Banks
… their decisions. Yet, cases of central bank corruption abound. The dissertation provides examples of “pure” corruption in central banks. Only a few studies address corruption and similar, but not necessarily criminal, behavior of central bank employees and governors, even though corruption in …
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Corruption and Policy Capacity
This thesis focuses on the effects of anti-corruption and, more generally, oversight policies in Brazil. The results shed light on a complex interaction between corruption control and policy outcomes, often missing from the relevant literature. I find robust evidence of unintended short-term …
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Fútbol, Politics, and Corruption
… football (soccer) is used as a tool to promote corruption within political and economic institutions in Latin America and Europe. By drawing on international political and economic policies and analyzing work that theorizes how neoliberalism is not only an outside force that highly influences …
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The anti-corruption mechanisms in the Anti-Corruption Act no. 8 of 2003
… is to postulate a discourse that the anti-corruption mechanisms as stipulated in the Anti-Corruption Act (Act No. 8 of 2003) are not adequate enough to combat corruption. The main objective of the paper is to examine these mechanisms in order to support the above argument. The other …
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Foreign direct investment and corruption
Corruption is the abuse of public authority and discretion for private gain. Corruption is perceived as detrimental to investment as it acts like a tax on investment by increasing the cost of doing business. However, the efficient grease hypothesis argues that corruption could increase investment …
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Essays on Corruption and Enforcement
… the enforcing party faces issues related to corruption and misreporting. In the first chapter, we construct a principal – agent – auditor model with adverse selection in which the principal optimally allows bribery to occur due to the potential for extortion. This result mirrors the moral …
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Collaboration In Anti-Corruption Action: Building A Collaborative Governance Model In Tackling Corruption In Indonesia
Corruption is one of the fundamental problems faced by various countries worldwide. In Asia, Indonesia is one of the countries that still faces challenges regarding corruption. This study aims to analyze to what extent the Indonesian government and Indonesia’s Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) tackle …
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The national Anti-Corruption Policy As an Effective Tool in The Fight Against Corruption in Zambia
The fight against corruption should not be static but dynamic as the vice is also getting more sophisticated. Many people have written about what corruption is and the effects on both society in any given nation and the international world. International aid is guaranteed on the basis of good …
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The national Anti-Corruption Policy As an Effective Tool in The Fight Against Corruption in Zambia
The fight against corruption should not be static but dynamic as the vice is also getting more sophisticated. Many people have written about what corruption is and the effects on both society in any given nation and the international world. International aid is guaranteed on the basis of good …
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Does mineral resource dependence foster corruption?
Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-36).
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Three Essays on Corruption and Collusion
<p>This dissertation studies corruption and collusion with data derived from a laboratory experiment and household data. In Chapter 1 I study experimental procurement auctions with bribery and a public reserve to test for the tacitly collusive equilibrium described by Compte et al. (2005). Three …
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Essays on Economic Aspects of Corruption
… given condition, decentralization also decreases corruption and the total revenue, and increases consumer surplus.
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Corruption distance and FDI in Africa
… studies that investigate the relationship of corruption and FDI tend to find that there is a strong relationship between corruption and FDI, although the findings are mixed in this regard; some have found the opposite while others have resulted in inconclusive results. This paper uses an …
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The economics of fraud and corruption
Fraud and corruption are serious issues which undermine the provision of public goods. This thesis consists of three papers which analyze the economics of fraud and the mechanisms by which it can be detected and averted. An introductory chapter presents an overview of the economic ideas surrounding …
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