Intelligence and corruption

Economics Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 109-112

  Potrafke, Niklas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corruption; Institutions; Intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054874529     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.09.040     Document Type: Article

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