deontological moral reminder (“corruption is immoral”) leads to a significant reduction in accepting bribes. A consequentialist …

Throughout the Western world, people's policy preferences are correlated across domains in a strikingly similar fashion …, affirmative action, environmental protection, foreign aid, health care, military, border control, and law enforcement. Moreover …

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms … played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and Western Europe. Finally, cross …

I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International’s Perception of Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections …

corruption. On the one hand, if we assume that the goal of criminals involved in corruption is to minimize the probability of … being detected, then corruption represents a demand for money laundering (trigger effect), while money laundering can serve … as an effective way to clean the revenue from corruption for re-investment (multiplier effect). On the other hand …

economy may be trapped in a locally stable high-corruption, high-slavery equilibrium and major changes in government policies …We develop a model where firms profit from coercing workers into employment under conditions violating national law and … may be necessary to move the economy out of this equilibrium. Moreover, we show that trade bans that are effective in …

The nexus between corruption and economic growth has been examined for a long time. Many empirical studies measured … corruption by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of Corruption Index (CPI) and ignored that the CPI was not … 2012-2018 and re-examine the nexus between corruption and economic growth. The cumulative long-run effect of corruption on …

This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross …-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and …

We study how policies limiting the spending capacity of local governments may reduce corruption. We exploit the … both recorded corruption rates and corruption charges per euro spent. This effect emerges only in areas in which the DSP … put a binding cap on municipal capital expenditures. The reduction in corruption is linked to accountability incentives as …