observe that corruption significantly decreases government spending on education, R&D and public health in China. We also …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 …

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 … openness, more access to media and relatively higher wages of government employees are markedly less corrupt; while social …

This paper analyzes the effects of supervisors’ (i.e., regulators and judges) selection rules on regulated prices. A … predictions. Indeed, when treated as endogenous, only the election of administrative law judges and not the one of regulators …

and respond less to shock in input costs in states that elect their regulators or their High Court judges. …

less corruption, more social welfare and education spending, more open markets, and better functioning government …

determinants of environmental policies’ stringency, and show that differences in corruption levels are more important as … explanatory factor when compared to income differentials. Since high levels of corruption characterize some countries in the …

corrupt economies in resource-rich countries. An empirical analysis of available corruption indices suggests that instability …-led looting provides a more fundamental explanation of perceived corruption than do various social and cultural indicators or the …

In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing … literature in four ways. First, instead of using corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use an … objective measure of corruption: the number of public officials convicted in a state for crimes related to corruption. Second …

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 …