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. …

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 …

potential scope for rent seeking and corruption. The insights of a model of political influence by interest groups are tested …

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 …

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

, one associated with high and another with low corruption. Corrupted politicians induce high levels of tax evasion … corruption equilibrium by choosing the appropriate tax rate and, through institutional changes, the rates of peculation. …

This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … prediction. Moreover, the effect of democratization on corruption depends on the protection of property rights and income …