Remittances and Governance: Does the Government Free Ride?
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remittances; corruption; institutions; nonparametric regression; public goods; consumption;JEL classification:
- F24 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Remittances
- D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
- C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
- H3 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
- E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2015-01-14 (Development)
- NEP-MAC-2015-01-14 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-POL-2015-01-14 (Positive Political Economics)
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