evidence suggests that people’s behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is …

We examine whether a corruption scandal in which the incumbent is implicated undermines trust in local government. We … use a novel dataset containing information on local corruption scandals reported in Spain during the period 1999-2009, and … methods to improve the identification of the effect of corruption scandals on trust, comparing municipalities affected by a …

corruption where the judicial system is independent, this relationship has more ambiguous effects where the legal system is weak … and susceptible to politicization. These effects remain after controlling for standard determinants of corruption. …

This paper analyzes the impact of migration on destination-country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive … explore different channels through which corruption might migrate. We employ different estimation methods using Fixed Effects … find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the destination country’s corruption level, immigration …

The paper analyzes the relation between institutional quality, such as corruption, in a country and its monetary regime …. It is shown that a credibly fixed exchange rate to a low inflation country, like a currency board, can reduce corruption … countries with regard to the level of corruption. …

We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is … suggest that the mechanisms through which resource rents affect corruption cannot be separated from political systems. …