industrialized world. Several scholars argue that corruption is one of the major obstacles to increase tax revenues but focus on … perceived corruption and remain on the macro-level. This study uses mirco-level data from the Afrobarometer survey wave 5 and … thus relates personal corruption experiences to tax morale. The nationally representative survey includes information about …

corruption-friendly setting caused by a weak institutional framework. We argue that corrupt elites exploit this given … corruption. …

, corruption of public officers, inefficiency of the labour judicial system). Provinces with better access to neighbouring … subjects, fewer corruption episodes and lower presence of organized crime should also be associated with higher flows of FDIs … projects, implying the investment of higher volumes of money. Similarly, higher levels of corruption are associated with larger …

Large-scale land acquisitions often take place in developing countries which are also known for their corruption …-friendliness caused by weak institutional frameworks. We hypothesize that corruption indeed leads to more land deals. We argue that … corrupt elites exploit poor institutional setups (characterized by corruption) to strike deals with domestic and international …

discretion and hence the space for policy errors; (2) human resource policies, capacity building, effective anti-corruption …

corruption. Despite the ubiquity of literature on corruption, the relationship between a state's political capacity and … corruption has not been addressed by the existing academic literature. To measure the political capacity of a country, the … reducing corruption. On the other hand, a strong political capacity provides them with the opportunity for rent-seeking and …

about the effect of the pandemic for longer-term outcomes such as corruption. We look at the historical data on political … and economic crises to assess what we can learn from the long-term effects of past crises on corruption. We hypothesize … corruption. We test our hypotheses using panel data for over 100 countries during the years 1800- 2020. The results suggest …