dependence of judiciaries influences corruption at different levels of the government in a model where the central government … authority and accept bribes from stealing low-level officials, it reduces corruption at the higher level of government but …Recent empirical work shows that judicial dependence can explain high levels of corruption. This paper examines how the …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the …

compromise between the government and an unelected external power. We show that the equilibria of this model differ significantly …

While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit …

, in turn, new populist parties that offer more polarized platforms. I investigate whether government ideology influences … evaluating how government/party ideology influences individual policies, previous econometric studies ignored initiatives in …

with the (in)effectiveness of a government’s healthcare-related responses to past epidemics. We document this mechanism …

trade; on the other hand, there are reasons to imagine that corruption may increase due to the increase in bureaucracy and … of corruption in a nation after joining the Union has not been formally studied. Any nation that joins the European Union … potentially faces two different and opposite effects on corruption. On the one hand, there are reasons to believe that 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 …