The topic of corruption has recently attracted a great deal of attention, yet there is still a lack of micro level … empirical evidence regarding the determinants of corruption. Furthermore, the present literature has not investigated the … effects of political interest on corruption despite the interesting potential of this link. We address these deficiencies by …

With complementary Chinese data sets and alternative corruption measures, we explore the consequences of corruption …. Adopting a novel approach we provide evidence that corruption can have both, positive and negative effects, on economic … development. The overall impact of corruption might be the balance of the two simultaneous effects within a specific institutional …

In this study we explore in detail the causes of corruption in China using two different sets of data at the regional … level (provinces and cities). We observe that regions with more anti-corruption efforts, histories of British rule, higher … heterogeneity, regulation, abundance of resource and state-owned enterprises substantially breed regional corruption. Moreover …

the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of … corruption is positively associated with social interaction. Then we empirically verify the theoretical prediction using within … a statistically significantly positive effect on the corruption rate in China. Our findings, therefore, underscore the …

The nexus between firm growth, size and age in U.S. manufacturing is examined through the lens of quantile regression … performing firms towards the median rate of growth, while age is never advantageous, and more so as firms grow faster. …

different dependent variables to focus on the impact of age, gender and children we use a large micro data set covering data … environment and a stronger willingness to contribute. Moreover, we observe the tendency of a negative correlation between age and … environmental preferences. However, a positive effect is visible once we focus on the impact of age on social norms (environmental …