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 …

showing who the key player is, i.e. the criminal who once removed generates the highest possible reduction in aggregate crime …

, thereby serving as partial commitment devices. We apply the model to crime and study the conditions under which agents would … optimally adhere to moral values of honesty. Incentives to be moral are non- monotonic in the crime premium. Larger external …

Italian crime phenomenon some stylized facts exist: high spatial and time variability and presence of “organised crime” (e … determinants of Italian crime for 1999 and 2003 and its “neighbouring” effects, measured in terms of geographical and relational … have a relevant impact on crime activities, but their role changes enormously respect to crimes against person (murders) or …

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 …

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 …