nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption … variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from … 1962 to 2019, we find a positive and significant response of protests to a positive shock in the news-based corruption …

Studying a relatively under-researched aspect in economics, this paper examines the nexus between corruption and … academic freedom. Our main hypothesis is that greater corruption undermines academic freedom and we test this hypothesis using … the direct and indirect (through corruption) effects of various drivers of academic freedom. Finally, additional insights …

This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical … literature, we argue that both institutional features are complements rather than substitutes in controlling corruption. Our … 175 countries from 1996 to 2010. The results show that democratic elections only work in controlling corruption, if there …

between core and peripheral member states. The results support the specialisation paradigm rather than the endogeneity …

OECD countries for the period 1970-2000 in which we account for the endogeneity of unwarranted" wage changes by exploiting …

matching procedure to deal with endogeneity problems. Our results, which are generally in line with the positive effects of …