Search Results - "Gillanders, Robert"

Foreign direct investment and the ease of doing business by Corcoran, Adrian, Gillanders, Robert

“…This paper examines the effect that a country's business regulatory environment has on the amount of foreign direct investment it attracts. We use the World…”
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Press Freedom and Corruption Perceptions: Is There a Reputational Premium? by Breen, Michael, Gillanders, Robert

“…Many studies find a strong association between press freedom and corruption perceptions (Adsera, Boix, & Payne, 2003; Brunetti & Weder, 2003; Freille, Haque, &…”
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Shelter in place? Depends on the place: Corruption and social distancing in American states by Dincer, Oguzhan, Gillanders, Robert

“…We investigate the links between corruption and compliance with social distancing during COVID-19 pandemic in America. Both theory and empirical evidence point…”
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Greasing the Turbines? Corruption and access to electricity in Africa by Cummins, Mark, Gillanders, Robert

“…Using survey data from the Afrobarometer, we document that respondents who live in areas where more people report having paid a bribe to access household…”
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Corruption and Infrastructure at the Country and Regional Level by Gillanders, Robert

“…This paper examines the relationship between corruption and infrastructure at both the country and regional level using the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys…”
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Money down the drain: Corruption and water service quality in Africa by Breen, Michael, Gillanders, Robert

“…Using data from the seventh round of the Afrobarometer, we find that a greater regional incidence of corruption in the utilities sector is associated with a…”
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Smartphones and attitudes to intimate partner violence: Evidence from Africa by Gillanders, Robert, McNamara, Glenn

“…This paper, using data from the Afrobarometer surveys, examines the potential for smartphones to influence attitudes to intimate partner violence (IPV)…”
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Corruption and the Burden of Regulation: National, Regional, and Firm-Level Evidence by Breen, Michael, Gillanders, Robert

“…Does corruption ease the burden of regulation? We test this question using survey data on business managers’ experience in dealing with regulation and…”
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Corruption and the shadow economy at the regional level by Gillanders, Robert, Parviainen, Sinikka

“…The links between corruption and the shadow economy have mostly been studied empirically at the country level. This paper contributes to this literature by…”
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Public Sector Corruption and Trust in the Private Sector by Gillanders, Robert, Neselevska, Olga

“…Using Afrobarometer data, we show that experiencing bribery in the course of one's interactions with the public sector lowers one's trust in big private…”
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Corruption and anxiety in Sub-Saharan Africa by Gillanders, Robert

“…This paper examines the relationship between individuals’ experience of corruption and their anxiety using microeconomic data from the Afrobarometer surveys…”
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Anti-tax evasion, anti-corruption and public good provision: An experimental analysis of policy spillovers by Banerjee, Ritwik, Boly, Amadou, Gillanders, Robert

“…•Our framed laboratory experiment shows that the possibility of corruption causally increases tax evasion.•Fighting corruption through monitoring and…”
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Anti-corruption policy making, discretionary power and institutional quality: An experimental analysis by Boly, Amadou, Gillanders, Robert

“…We analyse policymakers’ incentives to fight corruption under different institutional qualities. We find that ‘public officials’, even when non-corrupt,…”
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Corruption, homelessness and disasters by Breen, Michael, Gillanders, Robert, McMullan, Caroline

“…Corruption is widely believed to contribute to homelessness following a disaster triggered by natural hazards, as it is known to weaken resilience, deplete…”
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A clean and discreet service: The role of corruption and secrecy in profit shifting by multinational firms by Binhadab, Nouf, Gillanders, Robert, McCluskey, Thomas

“…Abstract We investigate the importance of corruption in shaping the profit‐shifting behaviour of multinational firms. Using country‐level panel data, we find a…”
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State ownership and corruption by Billon, Steve, Gillanders, Robert

“…We test two interesting results that can be obtained from a simplified version of the theoretical model of Shleifer and Vishny (Q J Econ 109(4):995–1025, 1994…”
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Open For Business? Institutions, Business Environment and Economic Development by Gillanders, Robert, Whelan, Karl

“…Summary Recent years have seen a significant focus in the literature on growth and development on the idea that legal and political institutions are the key…”
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Experts’ Perceptions Versus Firms’ Experiences of Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment by Gillanders, Robert, Parviainen, Sinikka

“…This paper documents that standard measures of corruption based on the perceptions of experts and opinion surveys and measures based on the experiences of…”
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Press freedom and corruption in business-state interactions by Binhadab, Nouf, Breen, Michael, Gillanders, Robert

“…•This is the first study to examine the impact of press freedom on corruption in business.•It finds that countries with greater press freedom have…”
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Corruption, institutions and regulation by Breen, Michael, Gillanders, Robert

“…We analyze the effects of corruption and institutional quality on the quality of business regulation. Our key findings indicate that corruption negatively…”
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