perception of corruption and prevalence of bribe paying. We find that: (a) measures of political influence and corruption …/or have fewer competitors have more political influence, perceive corruption to be less of a problem and pay bribes less often …

Government or company decisions on whom to hire are mostly delegated to politicians, public sector officials or human … resources and procurement managers. Due to anti-corruption laws, agents cannot sell contracts or positions that they are …

We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation …’ innovation activity. However, once the causal effect is isolated by means of instrumental variables, using death of politicians …-term connections with politicians. …

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 … data on the level of trust expressed in local politicians drawn from a new survey conducted in late 2009. We use matching …

Legal provisions that protect politicians from arrest and prosecution exist throughout much of the modern democratic … world. Why, and with what effects, do societies choose to place their politicians above the law? We examine the institution …; while statutory immunity provisions protect honest politicians from politically-motivated charges, they may also incentivize …

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. …

in US states may indeed reduce corruption levels among elected representatives. …

In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even if they have democratic … high corruption levels. Our model is based on the fact that corrupt offcials have to pay an entry fee to get lucrative … positions. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more …