This study examines the economic globalization and the shadow economy nexus in Egypt. Using time series data from 1976 … to 2013, the impulse response analysis shows that the response of the shadow economy in Egypt to positive shocks in … globalization by reducing the costs of doing business and trade in dealing with sizable shadow economy in Egypt …

sector production. The model is calibrated to Egypt and used to study reforms such as reductions in energy subsidies with …

estimate the size of the shadow economy in Egypt during the last four decades (1976 to 2013). In addition to the standard …

corruption and the concealment of officials' bribes, tax havens discourage the provision of public goods and hence have also a …

contrary, under corruption, we show that bailouts are ineffective unless rent-seeking groups are eradicated …

This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to an income loss. We exploit an unexpected 25% wage cut incurred …-stake exam taking place shortly after the wage announcement. To measure corruption we compare changes in exam outcomes from 2009 … induced better exam outcomes in public than in private schools and we attribute this difference to increased corruption by …

We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can … levels of pollution are dependent on the levels of corruption. Our results hold when we control for the effects of other …

We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is … suggest that the mechanisms through which resource rents affect corruption cannot be separated from political systems …

hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular kind of crime, namely corruption. In order to test it, it was … show that de facto independence of prosecution agencies robustly reduces corruption of officials …