Bribes, bureaucracies, and blackouts: Towards understanding how corruption at the firm level impacts electricity reliability
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- Jacquelyn Pless & Harrison Fell, 2015. "Bribes, Bureaucracies and Blackouts: Towards Understanding How Corruption at the Firm Level Impacts Electricity Reliability," Working Papers 2015-10, Colorado School of Mines, Division of Economics and Business.
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Corruption; Electricity; Reliability; Quality of government; Institutions; Common-pool resource;All these keywords.
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- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
- Q4 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy
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