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Living With Corruption: Threshold Effects in Red Tape and Rent Seeking

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  • Keith Blackburn
  • Niloy Bosey
  • Salvatore Capasso

    () (Centre for Growth and Business Cycles Research, Economic Studies, University of Manchester)

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Paper provided by D.E.S. (Department of Economic Studies), University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy in its series Working Papers with number 4_2008.

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Length: 23 pages
Date of creation: Apr 2008
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