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{"title":"Regulation of the Inter-Provincial Establishment of Companies: Applying the Private Interest Approach to China","authors":"Guang Shen, N. Philipsen","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2535219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2535219","url":null,"abstract":"Existing empirical evidence shows that Chinese companies sometimes face difficulties when they try to establish themselves across provinces in China. A significant cause of this problem is the way in which local authorities apply the existing rules on inter-provincial establishment of companies. Moreover, local companies (being insiders in the market) may seek to create barriers to entry. The creation of licensing barriers in China supports some of the arguments provided by the “private interest approach to regulation”.","PeriodicalId":365445,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy - Development: Underdevelopment & Poverty eJournal","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115937938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Economics of Corruption in Sports: The Special Case of Doping","authors":"Eugen Dimant, C. Deutscher","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2546029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2546029","url":null,"abstract":"Corruption in general and doping in particular are ubiquitous in both amateur and professional sports and have taken the character of a systemic threat. In creating unfair advantages, doping distorts the level playing field in sporting competition. With higher stakes involved, such distortions create negative externalities not only on the individual level (e.g. lasting health damages) but also frictions on the aggregate level (e.g. loss of media interest) and erode the principle of sports. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive literature overview of the individual drivers to dope, the concomitant detrimental effects and respective countermeasures. In explaining the athlete’s motivation to use performance enhancing drugs, we enrich the discussion by adapting insights from behavioral economics. These insights help to understand such an athlete’s decision beyond a clear-cut rationale but rather as a product of the interaction with the underlying environment. We stress that in order to ensure clean sports and fair competition, more sophisticated measurement methods have to be evolved and the respective data made publicly available in order to facilitate more extensive studies in the future. So far, the lack of data is alarming, especially in the area of elite sports where the stakes are high and doping has a substantial influence.","PeriodicalId":365445,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy - Development: Underdevelopment & Poverty eJournal","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128510096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Long Run Development of Chile and the Natural Resources Curse. Linkages, Policy and Growth, 1850-1950","authors":"Marc Badia-Miró, Cristián Ducoing","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2539023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2539023","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyses the effects of Natural Resources on the Chilean economy in the long run (1850 - 1950). Specifically, the authors focus their attention on the mining cycles (nitrates and copper) and their impact on the mining activity. We also compare it with the evolution of the industry and whole economy, and how this has affected the economic growth of the country. In that sense, the industrial performance in Chile at the end of the 19th century until the Great Depression is still under debate. The optimistic view of Kirsch (1977) forehead the pessimistic view of Lagos (1966) and Palma (1979). The new data and its analyses shows a neutral effect of the Natural Resources in the industrial development.","PeriodicalId":365445,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy - Development: Underdevelopment & Poverty eJournal","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130365070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Risk Based Approach to Tackle Corruption","authors":"Dharmendra Kumar","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2528901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2528901","url":null,"abstract":"This paper applies a 'Risk based approach' drawing primarily on the OECD and World Bank text lined. This analysis draws also an practical experience in a state owned enterprise. The analysis shows the utility of the referred models and also demonstrates as a practical matter that these models can be applied effectively outside a purely private environment. The analysis serves as a first step to possible application of these compliance models which were developed primarily for use in Private sector-to-Public sectors.","PeriodicalId":365445,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy - Development: Underdevelopment & Poverty eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121130148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Household Income and Relationships with Different Power Entities as Determinants of Corruption","authors":"A. R. Anik, S. Bauer","doi":"10.5709/CE.1897-9254.145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5709/CE.1897-9254.145","url":null,"abstract":"This article adds to the corruption literature by identifying factors influencing Bangladeshi farm households’ probability of experiencing corruption in different service sectors. The economet ric results show that households’ probability of being exposed to corruption can largely be explained through their income and their relationship with different power entities. The direction of the relationship between income and corruption vary across services. Relatively rich households have a higher probability of experiencing corruption in sectors such as education, health and electricity. These households are less likely to experience corruption in local government and agricultural extension services. The results here are contrary to the common trend in corruption research that addresses households’ aggregate corruption experiences. Households with relationships with different power entities have a lower probability of experiencing corruption than their counterparts without these types of relationships.","PeriodicalId":365445,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy - Development: Underdevelopment & Poverty eJournal","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131516003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crowd-Sourcing Corruption: What Petrified Forests, Street Music, Bath Towels and the Taxman Can Tell Us About the Prospects for Its Future","authors":"D. Zinnbauer","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2508606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2508606","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to map out the prospects of crowd-sourcing technologies in the area of corruption-reporting. A flurry of initiative and concomitant media hype in this area has led to exuberant hopes that the end of impunity is not such a distant possibility any more - at least not for the most blatant, ubiquitous and visible forms of administrative corruption, such as bribes and extortion payments that on average almost a quarter of citizens reported to face year in, year out in their daily lives in so many countries around the world (Transparency International 2013). Only with hindsight will we be able to tell, if these hopes were justified. However, a closer look at an interdisciplinary body of literature on corruption and social mobilisation can help shed some interesting light on these questions and offer a fresh perspective on the potential of social media based crowd-sourcing for better governance and less corruption. So far the potential of crowd-sourcing is mainly approached from a technology-centred perspective. Where challenges are identified, pondered, and worked upon they are primarily technical and managerial in nature, ranging from issues of privacy protection and fighting off hacker attacks to challenges of data management, information validation or fundraising. In contrast, short shrift is being paid to insights from a substantive, multi-disciplinary and growing body of literature on how corruption works, how it can be fought and more generally how observed logics of collective action and social mobilisation interact with technological affordances and condition the success of these efforts. This imbalanced debate is not really surprising as it seems to follow the trajectory of the hype-and-bust cycle that we have seen in the public debate for a variety of other technology applications. From electronic health cards to smart government, to intelligent transport systems, all these and many other highly ambitious initiatives start with technology-centric visions of transformational impact. However, over time - with some hard lessons learnt and large sums spent - they all arrive at a more pragmatic and nuanced view on how social and economic forces shape the implementation of such technologies and require a more shrewd design approach, in order to make it more likely that potential actually translates into impact.At a minimum, a trawl through this literature makes it possible to move beyond some of the most common-sense conjectures and develop a few more granular guesses on the future of crowd-sourcing corruption. At best, this approach may help identify some not so obvious challenges that may arise along the way and ensure that they are considered in the design process of future corruption crowd-sourcing interventions, raising their likelihood of impact and sustainable success.The remainder of this essay is structured as follows: Section 1 introduces the concept of crowd-sourcing for good governance. It provides a very brief overvi","PeriodicalId":365445,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy - Development: Underdevelopment & Poverty eJournal","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124072807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corruption and Flawed Democracy: Impact of Electoral Trend and Its Correlation of Electoral Integrity","authors":"L. M. Singh","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2440581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2440581","url":null,"abstract":"Corruption leaves no visible trace, no bloodstain, it is a crime shrouded in secrecy. This paper attempts to analyse corrupt practices and modus operandi of electioneering practices that largely affect on electoral integrity with an experiment of India’s northeast. Elections are the pivotal ingredient to the democratic process which allows various political actors to compete over choices and issues. So, success of the democracy largely depends on the modus operandi of electioneering practices. In such a situation, most of the politicians usually adopted various techniques and strategies to get their ends. Free and fair elections may not be claimed in the real sense that one or either form that closely associated with corrupt practices demeans democracy. Indeed, analysis is based on quantitative and empirical methods through SPSS interpretation on the structural data collected from India’s northeast. As both the counterparts giver and taker have involved and liable to punished, the possibility to prove genuinely is very doubtful. On the other hand, majority of electorates were also on the whims in the sense that they have readily accepted the odds. That more than one-third of electorates were aware of such corrupt practices which meant many of them might be in the net of this malpractice. The state of democracy in India’s northeast is clear example of flawed democracy where elections are totally in servitude. Electorates of this region cannot decide their franchise instead influenced by various factors.","PeriodicalId":365445,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy - Development: Underdevelopment & Poverty eJournal","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131027763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Development Consensus Reconciling the Beijing Model and Washington Consensus: Views and Agenda","authors":"S. Asongu","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2493457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2493457","url":null,"abstract":"Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal Institutional Pluralism (LIP) and New Structural Economics (NSE) schools have to be integrated. While the latter has recognized both State and market failures but failed to provide a unified theory, the former has left the challenging concern of how institutional diversity matter in the development process. We synthesize perspectives from over 150 recently published papers on development and Sino-African relations in order to present the relevance of both the WC and BM in the long-term and short-run respectively. While the paper provides a unified theory by reconciling the WC and the BM to complement the NSE, it at the same time presents a case for economic rights and political rights as short-run and long-run development priorities respectively. By reconciling the WC with the BM, the study contributes at the same to macroeconomic NSE literature of unifying a development theory and to the LIP literature on institutional preferences with stages of development. Hence, the proposed reconciliation takes into account the structural and institutional realities of nations at difference stages of the process of development.","PeriodicalId":365445,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy - Development: Underdevelopment & Poverty eJournal","volume":"261 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121885660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance","authors":"P. Domadenik, J. Prašnikar, Jan Svejnar","doi":"10.7916/D89886WR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7916/D89886WR","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market economies, affects corporate governance and productive efficiency of firms. Our model predicts that underdeveloped democratic institutions that do not punish political corruption result in political connectedness of firms that in turn has a negative effect on performance. We test this prediction on an almost complete population of Slovenian joint stock companies with 100 or more employees. Using the supervisory board structure, together with balance sheet and income statement data for 2000-2010, we show that a higher share of politically connected supervisory board members leads to lower productivity.","PeriodicalId":365445,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy - Development: Underdevelopment & Poverty eJournal","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132933201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Post-Sovyet Petrol İhraç Eden Ülkelerde Petrol Gelirlerinin Yaşam Standartlarına Etkisi (The Impact of the Oil Revenues on the Standard of Living in Oil-Exporting Countries of the Former Soviet Union)","authors":"E. Suleymanov, C. Bulut, Hasanov Fakhri","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2463409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2463409","url":null,"abstract":"Turkish Abstract: Calismamizin amaci, eski Sovyetler Birligi'nin petrol ihrac eden ulkelerdeki yasam standardi uzerinde petrol gelirlerinin etkisini incelemek ve elde edilen bulgulara dayali politika onerileri yapmaktir. Kaynak bagimliligi ekonominin farkli sektorlerinde gelir esitsizligi degisikliklere yol acar, bu ulkelerin ekonomilerinin yapisini ayarlamak zarureti gerektirir.Calismada kaynak zengin post-Sovyet petrol ihracatcilari ulkelerini -. Rusya, Kazakistan ve Azerbaycan analiz edilmistir Bu kaynaklara bagimlilik bir mekanizma araciligiyla istihdama dayali gelir esitsizligine yol acan bu ulkelerin ekonomilerinin yapisini degistirir oldugu ortaya konmustur.English Abstract: The aim of our study is to examine the impact of the oil revenues on the standard of living in oil-exporting countries of the former Soviet Union, Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, and to make policy suggestions based on the findings to be obtained. Is there a long-run relationship between the oil revenues and the standard of living in these countries? What is the role of dynamics of the oil revenues in the standard of living in the short run? What is the magnitude of speed of adjustment, if any, from the short-run deviations towards long-run equilibrium path. We are going to answer the above-mentioned questions by applying cointegration and error correction method to the data of these countries.","PeriodicalId":365445,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy - Development: Underdevelopment & Poverty eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131793410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}