test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces, and address the possible endogeneity of corruption by applying an … social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We … IV model. We use three sets of historical instruments for corruption: 1) foreign dominations in 16th-17th century, 2 …

Firms may evade taxes on profits and can also avoid fulfilling legal restrictions on production activities by bribing … bureaucrats. It is shown that the existence of tax evasion does not affect corruption activities at the firm level, while the … budgetary repercussions of tax evasion induce less corruption. Policy measures which alter the gains or losses from corruption …

distribution. Entrepreneurs strongly affect firm growth patterns of both very young firms and for firms that have begun to mature …. We do not find significant differences between small and larger firms, family and non-family firms, nor between firms …

party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without …

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 … (FE) and Tobit regressions in order to validate our findings. Moreover, we also address the issue of endogeneity by using …

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. …