While standard political economy theories suggest a moderating effect of democratization on income inequality … proxied by a country s dominant religion seems to be related to inequality. But in addition, in Judeo-Christian societies …

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium … and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate … levels of educational attainment, however, increases at initial levels of corruption and then decreases beyond a certain …

This study investigates the individual impact of credit information sharing and corruption as well as their interaction … reduce the negative effects of corruption on financial sector development, but PCR tends to be more effective, suggesting …, including the use of an alternative corruption indicator and sub-sample analysis. Finally, policy implications are discussed. …

government expenditure, the shadow economy and military expenditure. We find that the effect of corruption on public debt is …This paper examines the relationship between corruption and public debt in 106 countries. Results suggest that … corruption leads to an increase in public debt. We also investigate if the effect of corruption on pblic debt is increased by …

impacts corruption has on the size of the shadow economy as well as on the individual sources of long-term economic growth … extended DSGE model, it confirms the initial assumption that an increase in perceived corruption supports the shadow economy … economy representing taxes which are prone to tax evasion while asserting that corruption has a much more destructive effect …

This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross …-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and …