quality of democracy, and we investigate whether foreign aid can dampen them. We take advantage of previous empirical findings … flows can potentially dampen the effects of terms of trade instability on democracy. An empirical investigation with data … of trade instability affects democracy through income instability. …

transitions, we find that external debt constraints indebted countries to move up democracy scale but incite governments to …

66 developing countries over the period 1990-2005, this paper provides econometric evidence that democracy matters for … insufficiently welfare minded. We found that high levels of democracy are specifically needed in natural resource rich countries to …

In this paper, we analyze the interaction between corruption, taxation and economic growth. Our contributions are … twofold. Theoretically, in an endogenous growth model, we introduce corruption in two different ways: corruption in the public … expenditure and corruption in the public revenue. We show two opposing effects. Under certain conditions, corruption can affect …

The aim of this paper was to re-examine the relationship between the quality of public institutions and corruption …. Estimations from generalized method of moments show that better public institutions (regulation, bureaucracy, political structures …) are associated with lower levels of corruption. …

In this paper, we analyze the relationship between corruption and public revenues. An empirical investigation of panel … data (125 countries and covering the period 1980-2002) makes it possible not to reject the hypothesis that corruption has a … because different rent opportunities are created by corruption which seems to modify public revenues structure in favour of …

In this paper, we examine the microeconomic determinants of the perception of corruption in twelve Sub-Saharan African … countries. Unlike the indicators of corruption based on the opinion of international experts, the study focuses on corrupt … the individual characteristics such as age and sex significantly affect the perception people have of corruption as do …

deforest less than common law ones; (ii) less corruption and more secured property rights decrease deforestation in common law …

This paper investigates empirically the relationships between the corruption climate and the demand for good governance … accountability as well as the firm's behavior in terms of corruption practices. While there is a growing theoretical literature on … the importance of externality mechanisms of corruption phenomena, little empirical evidences has been highlighted. This …

This paper analyses the relationships between environmental compliance, corruption and environmental regulations in the …-compliance and corruption conditioned to the efficiency of the legal and regulatory framework. Moreover, we show that environmental … efficiency reduces corruption and environmental non compliance which are positively correlated and conditioned to judicial …