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Corruption and institutions in Russia
Mark Levin,Georgy Satarov +1 more
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In this paper, the authors describe the institutions and social norms that have accommodated corrup- tion in the Russian Federation in the post-transition years, and show how corruption is sustained by ill-defined boundaries between political and private business activity.About:
This article is published in European Journal of Political Economy.The article was published on 2000-03-01. It has received 253 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Corruption & Political corruption.read more
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The cross-country pattern of corruption Economics, culture and the seesaw dynamics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated and explained the cross-country pattern in the 1999 corruption index from Transparency International and found that the economic transition from poor to rich strongly reduces corruption, while periods of high inflation increase corruption.
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The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy
TL;DR: In this paper, tax morale and countries' institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors, finding strong support for the assertion that a higher tax morale, and a higher institutional quality, lead to a smaller shadow economy.
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Tax morale and conditional cooperation
Bruno S. Frey,Benno Torgler +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide empirical evidence for the relevance of conditional cooperation, using survey data from 30 West and East European countries, and find a high correlation between perceived tax evasion and tax morale.
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Corruption, Growth and Political Regimes: Cross Country Evidence
Facundo Sepulveda,Fabio Mendez +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found evidence of a non-monotonic relationship between corruption and growth after controlling for several other economic variables and restricting the sample to those countries considered to be free, and showed that the growth-maximizing level of corruption is significantly greater than zero.
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The impact of tax morale and institutional quality on the shadow economy
TL;DR: In this paper, tax morale and countries' institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors, finding strong support that a higher tax morale, and a higher institutional quality lead to a smaller shadow economy.
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Whither Reform? Ten Years of the Transition
TL;DR: The authors argue that the failures of the reforms in Russia and most of the former Soviet Union are not just due to sound policies being poorly implemented, but also due to a misunderstanding of the foundations of a market economy as well as a fundamental understanding of the basics of an institutional reform process.
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Seeking rents by setting rents: the political economy of rent seeking*
Elie Appelbaum,Eliakim Katz +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis of the interaction of regulators, firms, and consumers within a rent-s eeking framework where all three groups are assumed to be self-motivators.
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Harassment, corruption and tax policy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce "harassment" in a model of bribery and corruption and characterize the harassment equilibrium and show that taxpayers, with all possible levels of income, participate in such equilibrium.
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Predators, moral decay, and moral revivals
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assume that some people always choose to be producers, whereas other people, whom they denote as "amoral", choose to either be either producers or predators, depending on whether production or predation is more lucrative.