Does 'Grease Money' Speed Up the Wheels of Commerce? /

In a general equilibrium in which bribe-extracting bureaucrats can endogenously choose regulatory burden and delay, the effective (not just nominal) red tape and bribery can be positively correlated across firms. Using data from three worldwide firm surveys, this paper finds evidence consistent with...

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Главный автор: Kaufmann, Daniel
Другие авторы: Wei, Shang-Jin
Формат: Журнал
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000.
Серии:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2000/064
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