order to account for unobserved heterogeneity as well as the potential endogeneity of migration flows and the high …

the level of corruption or bureaucratic quality in the location choice. Their results are robust to using different …

Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to … impairing everybody's life. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and …

There is a growing evidence that political corruption is often closely associated with the rent seeking activities of … groups and the incidence of political corruption and determines whether electoral competition can eliminate political … corruption. We obtain some striking results. Greater electoral competition serves to lessen policy distortions. However, this in …

Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer 2004 survey show … that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among the … general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves. However …

This paper demonstrates the effect of country level corruption on illicit behavior of individuals in a foreign country … States from corruption-ridden countries are more likely to be apprehended than individuals from less corrupt countries are. …

The formation of new firms is an important determinant of economic development and the industrial organization … literature highlights agglomeration as one of the main factors affecting the formation and scale of operations of new firms. This … firms that choose to locate in a specific region within a specific industry) and urbanization (the benefits accruing to …

In the presence of increasing specialization of workers it becomes more and more difficult for firms to find the most …